BlockKnoxville, Georgia
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Roberta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31050. The Survey maps it on the Knoxville quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 453 feet above sea level.
On record in Knoxville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Crawford County Courthouselisted 1980
Crawford County Jaillisted 1989
The Georgia Post Buildinglisted 2013
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Crawford County Courthouse, Knoxvillefederal building survey, 3 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresKnoxville fell from 69 to 65 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 69 | |
| 2020 | 65 | -4 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1956 USGS Fort Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
398 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 398 fires within 5 miles of Knoxville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,095 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 42 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 | 233 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 42 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 39 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Natural | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Smoking | 11 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 4.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-CRAWFORD-003 |
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020CRAWFORD007 |
| 28 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-CRAWFORD-014 |
| 22 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020CRAWFORD006 |
| 21 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019CRAWFORD001 |
| 21 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 4.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-CRAWFORD-013 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Knoxville: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knoxville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
21 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knoxville in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 9 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2007 | Tornado (EF3) | Knoxville | 9 hurt, $500,000 | A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, GA concluded that an EF3 tornado touched down approximately four miles east of Knoxville and continued east-northeast into Bibb county ending just southeast of Lizella. The tornado exited Crawford county about 5.5 miles east of Sandy Point or about 9 miles east-northeast of Knoxville. The tornado traveled over six miles in Crawford county, but the path length of the entire track was approximately 8.5 miles long with a maximum path width of one-quarter mile. Significant damage was noted along the path of the tornado, especially along Sandy Point Road in northeast Crawford county. Here, several homes and outbuildings were heavily damaged or destroyed. Numerous trees were either snapped or uprooted. Nine injuries were reported in the area of the damaged homes. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville | $25,000 | The public reported that a poultry house collapsed from very localized thunderstorm downburst winds. A very small thunderstorm was noted in the area at the time. The damaged occurred approximately four miles southeast of the county courthouse in Knoxville. |
| January 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville | $4,000 | The Crawford County Emergency Manager reported that a porch was blown off the front of a home on Jackson Road. Several trees were blown down in the county as well. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville | $3,000 | The Crawford County 911 center reported three trees blown down on Highway 80 northeast of Knoxville. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville | $3,000 | The Flint Electric Membership Cooperative reported that some power lines were down along U.S. Highway 80 between Knoxville and the Bibb county line, near Sandy Point. Several power outages were reported in the area as well. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville | $3,000 | Crawford county 911 reported 2 trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds. A newspaper article reported a tree top fell onto a cabin on Hopewell Road West, but caused little damage.The owner reported hearing whistling wind and hail, and suspected a tornado. It was likely a downburst from a severe thunderstorm. Tree damage or uprooting was also reported in other parts of the county. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville | $2,000 | The Crawford County 911 center reported trees blown down on manor street in Roberta and on Marshall Mill Road. |
| August 2018 | Lightning | Knoxville | $1,000 | The Crawford County Emergency Manager reported a lightning strike at Crawford County High School. The strike caused considerable damage to an electrical control box and caused a small fire. There was no significant damage to the building structure due to the fire. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville | $1,000 | The Crawford county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down along U.S. 80 between Sandy Point and the Bibb county line. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville | $1,000 | Crawford County 911 reported trees were uprooted on Lower Hartley Bridge Road and Macgregor Circle. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville | $1,000 | Flint EMC reported trees down on power lines at Sandy Point. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville | $500 | The sheriff's office reported trees down. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville | $500 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Knoxville | - | A trained storm spotter reported quarter size hail at a residence off of Hortman Mill Road southeast of Roberta. |
| February 2008 | Hail | Knoxville | - | The Crawford County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Knoxville | - | Amateur radio operators reported penny size hail. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Knoxville | - | The Knoxville Sheriff's Office reported penny-sized hail in Knoxville, while the county 911 center reported penny-sized hail in Roberta. |
| March 2002 | Hail | Knoxville | - | An amateur radio operator reported dime size hail on U.S. Highway 80/Georgia Highway 22 about 4 miles east-northeast of Sandy Point near the Bibb county line. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Knoxville | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Knoxville | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Knoxville | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Knoxville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2687736 | 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 332159. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.