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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.

Hazlehurst within Jeff Davis County

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

Population over time

4 figures

Hazlehurst 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.

YearPeople Change
1890290
20003,787
20104,226+439 (+12%)
20204,088-138 (-3%)

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

673 since 1992

Regional 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 burning433
Misuse of fire by a minor44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism41
Smoking34
Natural32
Recreation and ceremony24
Equipment and vehicle use16
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 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-JEFF DAVIS-016
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JEFF DAVIS-012
9 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JEFF DAVIS-013
8 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JEFF DAVIS-011
7 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-JEFF DAVIS-015
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor5.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jeff Davis County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1995Thunderstorm WindHazlehurst$15,000Eight large trees and several power lines were blown down. Two buildings received structural damage.

Every storm recorded in Jeff Davis 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
Maysie (historical)3.0 miles8
Tallahassee3.7 miles8
Roper5.0 miles8
Quinn (historical)5.8 miles8
Satilla5.8 miles8
Orico (historical)6.8 miles8
Goldsmith (historical)7.4 miles8
Brooker9.7 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 HazlehurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2729563The 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.