Iron City, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Donalsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39859. The Survey maps it on the Donalsonville East quadrangle. 312 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 144 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresIron City fell from 321 to 312 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 321 | |
| 2010 | 310 | -11 (-3%) |
| 2020 | 312 | +2 (+1%) |
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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Donalsonville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
373 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 373 fires within 5 miles of Iron City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 727 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 22 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 | 258 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 68 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iron City in 8 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iron City | $50,000 | A few homes experience minor damage with missing roof shingles and porch damage. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iron City | $10,000 | Half a roof was blown off a mobile home on Lane Bridge Road. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iron City | $3,000 | Scattered trees and power lines were blown down. |
| November 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iron City | $2,000 | The public reported via social media that an irrigation pivot had flipped in the Iron City area. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iron City | - | Tree limbs were blown down onto Lane Bridge Road. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iron City | - | A tree was blown down. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iron City | - | A tree was blown down on Highway 285 near Three Notch Road. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iron City | - | Multiple trees were blown down south of Highway 285. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharphagen | 1.0 miles | 8 | |
| Lela | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Donalsonville | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Town and Country Estates | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Pine Lake Estates | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Little Hope | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Riverturn | 7.3 miles | 13 | |
| Steam Mill | 8.8 miles | 13 |
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 Iron City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2510527 | 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 332064. 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.




