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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.

Iron City within Seminole County

Population over time

3 figures

Iron 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.

YearPeople Change
2000321
2010310-11 (-3%)
2020312+2 (+1%)

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

373 since 1992

Regional 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 burning258
Equipment and vehicle use68
Arson/incendiarism22
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Debris and open burning3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Storms near this place

8 since 2015

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2021Thunderstorm WindIron City$50,000A few homes experience minor damage with missing roof shingles and porch damage.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindIron City$10,000Half a roof was blown off a mobile home on Lane Bridge Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindIron City$3,000Scattered trees and power lines were blown down.
November 2025Thunderstorm WindIron City$2,000The public reported via social media that an irrigation pivot had flipped in the Iron City area.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindIron City-Tree limbs were blown down onto Lane Bridge Road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindIron City-A tree was blown down.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindIron City-A tree was blown down on Highway 285 near Three Notch Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindIron City-Multiple trees were blown down south of Highway 285.

Every storm recorded in Seminole 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
Sharphagen1.0 miles8
Lela3.4 miles12
Donalsonville4.0 miles8
Town and Country Estates4.0 miles8
Pine Lake Estates4.0 miles8
Little Hope5.1 miles8
Riverturn7.3 miles13
Steam Mill8.8 miles13

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2510527The 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.