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.
Population over time
2 figuresGeneva 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 105 | |
| 2020 | 75 | -30 (-29%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
240 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 120 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 34 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019TALBOT002 |
| 8 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 9.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-TALBOT-006 |
| 5 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020TALBOT004 |
| 29 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2017 | Smoking | 6.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-TALBOT-003 |
| 21 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020TALBOT010 |
| 21 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-TALBOT-006 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneva | $4,000 | The Talbot County 911 center reported a few trees blown down along Highway 240 south of Geneva. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneva | $2,000 | The Talbot County 911 center reported large tree limbs blown down onto power lines on Highway 240. |
| March 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneva | $1,500 | Local newspaper in Columbus reported several trees down along Highway 96 near Geneva. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneva | $1,000 | The Talbot county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down on U.S. Highway 80/Georgia Highway 96. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Geneva | - | The public reported quarter size hail at O'Hanlon's Restaurant on Highway 80 near Geneva. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Geneva | - | 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 2011 | Hail | Geneva | - | The public observed quarter-sized hail in the far southwest corner of Talbot county between Upatoi and Geneva near the Muscogee county line. |
| February 2008 | Hail | Geneva | - | The Talbot County 911 Center relayed a report of penny-sized hail along Geneva highway in the southern portion of the county. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Geneva | - | The Talbot County Sheriff's Office reported penny-sized hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paschal (historical) | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Junction City | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Brownsand | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Box Springs | 6.7 miles | 17 | |
| Talbotton | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Olive Branch | 7.1 miles | 16 | |
| Baldwinville | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Baughville | 8.1 miles | 16 |
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 Geneva | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2740240 | 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 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.








