Graham, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Big Satilla Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31539. The Survey maps it on the Hazlehurst South quadrangle. 263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGraham fell from 291 to 263 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 | 291 | |
| 2020 | 263 | -28 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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
- 1971 USGS Hazlehurst South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
555 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 555 fires within 5 miles of Graham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,822 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 70 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 | 319 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 70 |
| Natural | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 |
| Smoking | 28 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 17 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-JEFF DAVIS-012 |
| 5 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2016 | Smoking | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-APPLING-031 |
| 30 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-JEFF DAVIS-021 |
| 29 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-JEFF DAVIS-009 |
| 29 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graham in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Lightning | Graham | $40,000 | Portion of City Hall roof blown off cause unknown suspected to have been lightning. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graham | $2,000 | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graham | $1,000 | Emergency manager reported trees down with power outages on Jim sellers road and holt rentz road. Time was estimated by radar. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graham | - | Trees were blown down. The time of damage was based on radar. |
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Graham | - | A tornado began to decrease down to an EF0 as it tracked over the Jeff Davis and Appling county border. The last tornado damage found was along Alma Highway where a couple of softwood trees were snapped and branches broken ranging from 1 to 3 inches in diameter. This is the end of the tornado track. |
| January 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Graham | - | The tornado started in extreme western Appling County, possibly extreme SE Jeff Davis county and tracked NE at 50-60 mph before lifting along the NW part of the town of Baxley. The event occurred mainly along or parallel to Zoar Road. The peak wind was near 110 mph in the vicinity of County Farm Road. The most significant damage was in the area near Zoar Methodist Church where structural damage occurred to the church including roof damage and tilting the steeple and other outbuildings in the area. Extensive tree damage occurred to both hard and softwood trees with trees uprooted, snapped and large limbs twisted. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Graham | - | Nickel size hail was reported in Graham and the Spring Hill Branch Community. |
| September 2007 | Heavy Rain | Graham | - | Periods of heavy rainfall caused temporary flooding across the county. Around 9 am local time, flooding was reported along Highway 341 West between Hazlehurst and Graham. Water covered all four lanes of the road. Around 1 pm local time, at least 10 streets in Baxley had standing water due to heavy rains. |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Graham | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Graham | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Graham | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnsonville (historical) | 0.9 miles | 8 | |
| Pine Grove | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Prentiss | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Bassville | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Spring Branch | 8.0 miles | 8 | |
| Phillipi | 8.1 miles | 8 | |
| Cook Heights | 8.2 miles | 8 | |
| Baker Homes | 8.4 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 Graham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2186128 | 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 331846. 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.




