LaFayette, Georgia
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the LaFayette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30728. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the LaFayette quadrangle. 6,888 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 810 feet above sea level.
On record in LaFayette
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
Chattooga Academylisted 1980
Marsh-Warthen Houselisted 2005
Walker County Courthouselisted 1980
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Marsh-Warthen House, LaFayettefederal building survey, 3 photographs
Population over time
3 figuresLaFayette grew from 6,702 to 6,888 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 | 6,702 | |
| 2010 | 7,121 | +419 (+6%) |
| 2020 | 6,888 | -233 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 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.
- 1886 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1936 USGS Estelle quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Estelle quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Estelle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
438 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 438 fires within 5 miles of LaFayette between 1992 and 2019, burning about 865 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 127 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 | 257 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 127 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of LaFayette: 5 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilmer Frye Prospect | Iron, Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Boss Tripoli Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Horine Development Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Patton Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Glenn Prospect | Iron | Prospect | ||
| McLamore's Cove Area-A | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| McLamore's Cove Area-B | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| Shinbone Ridge Area-C | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant |
Storms near this place
5 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names LaFayette in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lafayette | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | LaFayette | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and powerlines in and around LaFayette as well as the southern portions of the county. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | LaFayette | $500 | Trees and powerlines were reported down by County EMA near the town of Cedar Grove. |
| February 1993 | Hail | Lafayette | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Lafayette | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Park | 0.5 miles | 25 | |
| Linwood | 0.7 miles | 25 | |
| Skyline Heights | 1.0 miles | 25 | |
| Dogwood Circle | 1.1 miles | 25 | |
| Winwood Forest | 1.6 miles | 25 | |
| Pledger Parkway | 1.6 miles | 25 | |
| Meadowview | 1.8 miles | 25 | |
| Horse Lake Estates | 2.2 miles | 25 |
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 LaFayette | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2529127 | 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 316521. 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.











