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Funston, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Funston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31768. The Survey maps it on the Moultrie quadrangle. 402 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 351 feet above sea level.

Funston within Colquitt County

Population over time

3 figures

Funston fell from 426 to 402 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000426
2010449+23 (+5%)
2020402-47 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Funston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 766 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning205
Arson/incendiarism33
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural3
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-COLQUITT-004
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-COLQUITT-009
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020COLQUITT012
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020COLQUITT008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colquitt County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Funston in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2009Thunderstorm WindFunston$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were down across the center part of the county, including Moultrie.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFunston$1,000Two trees were blown down by downburst winds. Monetary damage was estimated.
May 2023Flash FloodFunston-Water was flowing across Highway 111 near Dunn Road.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindFunston-Power lines were blown down on Highway 37 West.
November 2022Tornado (EFU)Funston-A brief tornado touched down in a field with no damage reported.
May 2012HailFunston-Hail up to nickel size fell along Highway 37 to the west of Moultrie.
June 1999Funnel CloudFunston-Funnel cloud reported by the Colquitt County 911 dispatch.
June 2012HailFunston-no account filed
May 1998HailFunston-no account filed
June 1996HailFunston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colquitt County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bay2.9 miles8
Marble (historical)3.0 miles9
Schley3.5 miles9
Riverside3.8 miles9
Center Hill4.4 miles8
Sigsbee4.6 miles10
Moultrie4.7 miles9
Hartsfield5.6 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on FunstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q527152The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 314461. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.