BlockGibson, Georgia
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gibson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30810. It stands on Chalk Hill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gibson quadrangle. 630 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 348 feet above sea level.
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On record in Gibson
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 1 record
Glascock County Courthouselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresGibson fell from 663 to 630 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 | 663 | |
| 2020 | 630 | -33 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Gibson quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
277 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Gibson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 836 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 15 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 | 163 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-GLASCOCK-001 |
| 9 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-GLASCOCK-003 |
| 6 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2014-GLASCOCK-002 |
| 14 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2016-JEFFERSON-006 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gibson in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Lightning | Gibson | $50,000 | The Glascock County Emergency Management Director reported that two house fires were started as a result of lightning strikes. Damage estimates were indeterminate. |
| October 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gibson | $25,000 | The Glascock County Emergency Management Director reported that a possible microburst downed numerous trees and power lines between Hobbs Road and County Line Road in the extreme northeast part of the county. Two mobile homes were damaged. One of the mobile homes had its roof blown off and another had its porch blown on top of the home. One commercial industry in the area also suffered some roof damage. One witness in the area reported seeing a 4 x 8 foot utility trailer spun around by the strong winds. Another resident estimated the winds at 70 mph and also reported pea-sized hail. |
| January 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gibson | $7,000 | The Glascock county 911 center reported trees down in the northwest part of the county near Five Points. In addition, the roof of one home was damaged. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gibson | $5,000 | The Glascock County Emergency Management Director reported that the roof was blown off the carport of a home. No other damage was noted in the area at this time. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gibson | $5,000 | A survey conducted by the National Weather Service and the Glascock County Emergency Management Director concluded that an apparent thunderstorm microburst or downburst resulted in 10 to 12 large trees being uprooted on the east side of Gibson. In addition, some windows were blown out of the porch of a home in the area. Minor roof damage was also reported to the same home and an adjacent barn and a light pole on the property was twisted off as well. Another 15 to 20 trees were snapped off by high winds across a 2-mile wide area. A power pole was snapped when trees fell on the power line. |
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Gibson | $4,000 | A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that a brief EF0 tornado had touched down just southeast of the city of Gibson and traveled approximately 1000 yards or about 0.6 mile on an east-southeastward track. This tornado was spawned by the same supercell thunderstorm that spawned the earlier EF3 tornado in eastern Hancock county. The tornado was determined to have a maximum path width of 150 yards with maximum winds of 100 mph. A number of large pine trees were uprooted or snapped along the path of the tornado. However, no structural damage was noted as a result of this tornado. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gibson | $2,000 | The public reported that several trees were down along Georgia Highway 171 from Gibson north toward the Warren county line. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gibson | $250 | The Glascock county 911 center reported that one tree was blown down. |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Gibson | - | The public reported Snider Road, between Gibson and Mitchell, was washed out due to highwater on a local creek. Radar estimates indicate that between 2.5 and 3 inches of rain occurred over the area in under an hour, resulting in the flash flooding. |
| March 2010 | Hail | Gibson | - | The Glascock County 911 Center relayed a report of half-dollar-sized hail from the far northern part of the county near the Warren county line. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Gibson | - | The Glascock County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Gibson | - | One-inch hail fell and damaged the vehicle of an employee at the Gibson Georgia Sheriff's Office. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Gibson | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Gibson | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Gibson | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Gibson | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Gibson | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blume | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Five Points | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| David (historical) | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Mitchell | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Edgehill | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Harts | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Bastonville | 6.2 miles | 9 | |
| Hadden | 6.5 miles | 15 |
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 Gibson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2102518 | 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 331807. 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.