Haralson, Georgia
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Senoia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30276. The Survey maps it on the Haralson quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresHaralson grew from 114 to 172 between 1890 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1890 | 114 | |
| 2010 | 166 | |
| 2020 | 172 | +6 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Haralson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
202 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Haralson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 736 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 20 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 | 123 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020SPALDING002 |
| 26 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019MERIWETHER001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haralson in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Haralson | $50,000 | This is a continuation of the tornado in northeast Meriwether County. An EF0 tornado form half a mile east of the previous tornado that lifted in extreme northeast Meriwether County near Dolly Harris Rd and traveled north northeast about 3.2 miles downing hundreds of trees before lifting near GA16 and Starlight Dr. No structures were known to be damaged. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haralson | $1,500 | The Coweta County Emergency Manager reported that several trees were blown down just southwest of Senoia. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haralson | $1,000 | Trees downed along dead oak road and hardy road. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haralson | $1,000 | Large tree down at Rowe Road and Hutchinson Road. |
| December 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haralson | $1,000 | Tree down across roadway at intersection of ga highway 85 and Dolly Nixon Rd. |
| July 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Haralson | $1,000 | A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service of Peachtree City concluded that an F0 tornado had very briefly touched down along Georgia Highway 85, three miles north of Haralson. Damage was minor and consisted entirely of downed trees. The tornado path length was 100 yards and the path width was 50 yards. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haralson | $500 | Thunderstorm winds blew trees down onto power lines on Gordon Road. |
| April 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Haralson | - | An EF1 Tornado with maximum winds of 90 mph touched down in far|Southeastern Coweta County just west of Gray Girls road at|approximately 7:22 AM EDT on April 7,2025. The tornado snapped|some trees next to a house and onto an outbuilding along Gray|Girls Road. Damage in this area and for much of its path was|consistent with EF0 tornadic wind damage. |
| December 2023 | Hail | Haralson | - | Quarter size hail reported near the intersection of Dead Oak Rd and Fox Hollow Dr. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haralson | - | Tree down near intersection of Eastside School Rd and Wolf Crk Dr. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Haralson | - | A storm spotter observed penny-sized hail south of Senoia near the Meriwether county line. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Haralson | - | The public reported penny-sized hail along Georgia Highway 16 in the Turin and Senoia area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmdale (historical) | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Elders Mill | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Blackjack | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Pope Hills Estate | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Senoia | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Peeks Crossing | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Turin | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Jade Lake Village | 7.7 miles | 9 |
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 Haralson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2520618 | 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 356164. 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.




