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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.

Graham within Appling County

Population over time

2 figures

Graham 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.

YearPeople Change
2010291
2020263-28 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

555 since 1992

Regional 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 burning319
Arson/incendiarism70
Natural35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Smoking28
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony17
Railroad operations and maintenance5

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 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JEFF DAVIS-012
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Smoking1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-APPLING-031
30 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-JEFF DAVIS-021
29 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-JEFF DAVIS-009
29 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appling County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002LightningGraham$40,000Portion of City Hall roof blown off cause unknown suspected to have been lightning.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindGraham$2,000Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGraham$1,000Emergency manager reported trees down with power outages on Jim sellers road and holt rentz road. Time was estimated by radar.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGraham-Trees were blown down. The time of damage was based on radar.
December 2021Tornado (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 2017Tornado (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 2012HailGraham-Nickel size hail was reported in Graham and the Spring Hill Branch Community.
September 2007Heavy RainGraham-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 2006Funnel CloudGraham-no account filed
June 2006Funnel CloudGraham-no account filed
May 1999HailGraham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Appling 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
Johnsonville (historical)0.9 miles8
Pine Grove3.2 miles8
Prentiss6.2 miles8
Bassville7.8 miles8
Spring Branch8.0 miles8
Phillipi8.1 miles8
Cook Heights8.2 miles8
Baker Homes8.4 miles8

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 GrahamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2186128The 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.