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Hiltonia, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hiltonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. The Survey maps it on the Hilltonia quadrangle. 310 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 180 feet above sea level.

Hiltonia within Screven County

Population over time

2 figures

Hiltonia fell from 342 to 310 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
2010342
2020310-32 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

195 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Hiltonia between 1992 and 2019, burning about 952 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 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 burning124
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
27 September 2019Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SCREVEN007
27 September 2008Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SCREVEN005
19 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SCREVEN002
29 August 2015Debris and open burning2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-SCREVEN-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven 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
Red Bluff Landing2.4 miles17
Bascom3.0 miles17
Millhaven3.5 miles17
Jacksonboro (historical)4.6 miles17
Lewis5.8 miles17
Waters8.8 miles17
Burtons Ferry Landing9.0 miles17
Sylvania9.3 miles17

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 HiltoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2792242The 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 356311. 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.