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Geneva, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Junction City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31810. The Survey maps it on the Geneva quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Geneva within Talbot County

Population over time

2 figures

Geneva fell from 105 to 75 between 2010 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
2010105
202075-30 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

240 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Geneva between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,248 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 34 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 burning120
Arson/incendiarism34
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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
9 September 2018Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019TALBOT002
8 September 2016Debris and open burning9.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-006
5 September 2019Debris and open burning20 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TALBOT004
29 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2017Smoking6.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-TALBOT-003
21 September 2019Debris and open burning4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TALBOT010
21 September 2012Debris and open burning14 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-TALBOT-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talbot County

Storms near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Geneva in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGeneva$4,000The Talbot County 911 center reported a few trees blown down along Highway 240 south of Geneva.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGeneva$2,000The Talbot County 911 center reported large tree limbs blown down onto power lines on Highway 240.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindGeneva$1,500Local newspaper in Columbus reported several trees down along Highway 96 near Geneva.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindGeneva$1,000The Talbot county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down on U.S. Highway 80/Georgia Highway 96.
July 2016HailGeneva-The public reported quarter size hail at O'Hanlon's Restaurant on Highway 80 near Geneva.
April 2015HailGeneva-An employee of OHanlons Restaurant on U.S. Highway 80 north of downtown Geneva reported dime to quarter size hail fell for 10 to 20 minutes.
March 2011HailGeneva-The public observed quarter-sized hail in the far southwest corner of Talbot county between Upatoi and Geneva near the Muscogee county line.
February 2008HailGeneva-The Talbot County 911 Center relayed a report of penny-sized hail along Geneva highway in the southern portion of the county.
April 2005HailGeneva-The Talbot County Sheriff's Office reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Talbot 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
Paschal (historical)4.7 miles8
Junction City5.1 miles8
Brownsand5.8 miles8
Box Springs6.7 miles17
Talbotton6.8 miles16
Olive Branch7.1 miles16
Baldwinville7.3 miles8
Baughville8.1 miles16

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 GenevaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2740240The 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 355991. 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.