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Georgetown, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pooler-Bloomingdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31419. The Survey maps it on the Burroughs quadrangle. 11,916 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 15 feet above sea level.

Georgetown within Chatham County

On record in Georgetown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Georgetown grew from 11,823 to 11,916 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
201011,823
202011,916+93 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 906 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 38 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 burning65
Arson/incendiarism38
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural3

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
13 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-CHATHAM-003
31 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2016Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-003
17 August 2002Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHATHAM-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Georgetown: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shuman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chatham 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
Village Green1.1 miles17
Burroughs1.2 miles17
Ogeechee Farms1.6 miles18
Windward2.3 miles17
Henderson2.4 miles18
Grove Point2.5 miles17
Forest River Farms2.8 miles17
Grubbs3.1 miles15

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 GeorgetownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2594891The 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 1694531. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.