Hazlehurst, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hazlehurst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31539. The Survey maps it on the Hazlehurst South quadrangle. 4,088 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.
On record in Hazlehurst
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
Pace Houselisted 2003
Population over time
4 figuresHazlehurst grew from 290 to 4,088 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 | 290 | |
| 2000 | 3,787 | |
| 2010 | 4,226 | +439 (+12%) |
| 2020 | 4,088 | -138 (-3%) |
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
673 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 673 fires within 5 miles of Hazlehurst between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,332 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 41 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 | 433 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 41 |
| Smoking | 34 |
| Natural | 32 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| 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 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-JEFF DAVIS-016 |
| 9 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-JEFF DAVIS-012 |
| 9 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-JEFF DAVIS-013 |
| 8 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-JEFF DAVIS-011 |
| 7 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-JEFF DAVIS-015 |
| 6 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 5.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazlehurst in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazlehurst | $15,000 | Eight large trees and several power lines were blown down. Two buildings received structural damage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maysie (historical) | 3.0 miles | 8 | |
| Tallahassee | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Roper | 5.0 miles | 8 | |
| Quinn (historical) | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Satilla | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Orico (historical) | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Goldsmith (historical) | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Brooker | 9.7 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 Hazlehurst | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2729563 | 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 315266. 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.




