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Irondale, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Jonesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30238. It stands on Swamp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hampton quadrangle. 8,740 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Irondale within Clayton County

Population over time

2 figures

Irondale grew from 7,446 to 8,740 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
20107,446
20208,740+1,294 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Irondale between 1992 and 2019, burning about 330 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 40 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
Arson/incendiarism40
Misuse of fire by a minor33
Debris and open burning28
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking5
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Arson/incendiarism8.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Debris and open burning6.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1995Smoking1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton 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
Walnut Creek0.4 miles11
Iron Gate0.5 miles11
Willow Bend0.8 miles11
Orrs1.1 miles11
The Springs1.1 miles11
Bonanza1.6 miles11
Lake Chase1.7 miles11
Mundys Mill1.7 miles10

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 IrondaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301661The 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 1867243. 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.