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Ila, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ila census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30530. It stands on Wolf Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ila quadrangle. 350 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Ila within Madison County

Population over time

2 figures

Ila grew from 337 to 350 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
2010337
2020350+13 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Ila between 1992 and 2020, burning about 374 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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 burning107
Smoking19
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
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
9 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ila in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2008HailIla$800,000A cooperative observed in Ila reported hail larger than baseballs, namely 3.00 inch diameter hail. Hail the size of baseballs was observed further southeast just west of Danielsville. Radar supported that large hail continued to the southeast part of the county.
August 2021Tornado (EF1)Ila$100,000A National Weather Service survey determined that an EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 100 mph and a maximum path width of 150 yards touched down in Madison County in a wooded area east of Rogers Mill Road. The tornado moved northwest crossing Coley Davis Road and Rogers Mill Road snapping and uprooting numerous trees. The tornado snapped an entire grove of pine trees in the area east of Doe Run Road and along Doe Run Road. Continuing to the northwest, the storm crossed Lake Deerfield Road, snapping and uprooting dozens of trees. Along Chandler Farm Road, several homes and barns were struck by falling trees. One home had a large tree through the master bedroom and 2 barns nearby were destroyed. The tornado then crossed Old Ila Road where it flipped a large camper onto its roof and snapped or uprooted several trees. The storm continued moving to the northwest, crossing Highway 106 snapping and uprooting trees. Further to the northwest, crossing Adams Clarke Road, Sunray Hatchery Road and Frank Bird Road, the tornado snapped or uprooted numerous trees. The tornado damaged several homes as it approached Highway 98 west of Ila, including one home with a portion of its roof blown off. Several |outbuildings were damaged and numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado crossed Highway 98 around Jot-Em Down Road before dissipating near Mountain View Road and Allen Road. [8/17/21: Tornado #6, County #1/1, EF-1, Madison, 2021:020].
March 2008Thunderstorm WindIla$50,000The Madison County Emergency Management Director reported that at least six trees were down along Georgia Highway 106 north of Ila to the Banks county line. A chicken house in Shiloh was damaged when a portion of the tin was blown off and the New Hope church on Georgia Highway 281 in Harrison sustained some roof damage.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindIla$25,000The Madison County 911 Center reported that a couple of chicken houses were damaged along Macedonia Church Road from an apparent thunderstorm downburst or microburst.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindIla$25,000The National Weather Service cooperative observer for Madison county reported that straight line thunderstorm wind gusts caused extensive damage to trees in the area. Hundreds of trees were either uprooted or broken off, with extensive debris in the streets in and around Ila. Several small structures in the area also sustained wind damage, mainly in the form of damage to roofs. Pea-sized hail was also reported in the area.
May 2006HailIla-The public reported quarter-sized hail just northwest of Ila between Georgia Highways 98 and 106. The Madison County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail two miles north of Danielsville and in the city of Danielsville as well.
April 1998HailIla-no account filed
May 1996HailIla-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Pocataligo1.9 miles13
Hix2.7 miles13
Rogers2.8 miles13
Velpoe3.1 miles15
Minish3.7 miles13
Planter4.5 miles14
Alvin4.6 miles13
Shiloh4.6 miles15

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 IlaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q653474The 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 315877. 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.