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.
Population over time
3 figuresFunston 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 426 | |
| 2010 | 449 | +23 (+5%) |
| 2020 | 402 | -47 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
293 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 205 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-COLQUITT-004 |
| 30 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-COLQUITT-009 |
| 29 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020COLQUITT012 |
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020COLQUITT008 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Funston | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were down across the center part of the county, including Moultrie. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Funston | $1,000 | Two trees were blown down by downburst winds. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Funston | - | Water was flowing across Highway 111 near Dunn Road. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Funston | - | Power lines were blown down on Highway 37 West. |
| November 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Funston | - | A brief tornado touched down in a field with no damage reported. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Funston | - | Hail up to nickel size fell along Highway 37 to the west of Moultrie. |
| June 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Funston | - | Funnel cloud reported by the Colquitt County 911 dispatch. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Funston | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Funston | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Funston | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay | 2.9 miles | 8 | |
| Marble (historical) | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Schley | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Riverside | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Center Hill | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Sigsbee | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Moultrie | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Hartsfield | 5.6 miles | 8 |
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 Funston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q527152 | The 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.




