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Lavonia, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lavonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30553. The Survey maps it on the Lavonia quadrangle. 2,143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Lavonia within Franklin County

On record in Lavonia

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 12 of 28 shown

Every listing in Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Lavonia fell from 2,156 to 2,143 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
20102,156
20202,143-13 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

270 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Lavonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 415 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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 burning162
Equipment and vehicle use36
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FRANKLIN-006
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019FRANKLIN001
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN007
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FRANKLIN-012
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-FRANKLIN-002
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FRANKLIN-010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lavonia: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Highway DepositsMicaOccurrence
Weldon MineMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lavonia in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 21 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1996Thunderstorm WindLavonia$25,000no account filed
April 2019Thunderstorm WindLavonia$10,000County comms reported numerous trees and power lines blown down in the Lavonia area, with one tree down on house.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLavonia$10,000A tree was blown onto a house, while several other trees were blown across roads. A few powerlines were also blown down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLavonia$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Tugaloo State Park and in the city of Lavonia. One tree fell on a vehicle.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLavonia$1,000Three trees were blown down and a carport was damaged.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindLavonia$500A few large trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindLavonia-Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines and causing an outage in the Gumlog community.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLavonia-Public reported multiple trees blown down in the Gumlog and Tugaloo State Park areas.
April 2021HailLavonia-Public reported (via Social Media) quarter size hail in the Gumlog community.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLavonia-County comms reported multiple trees down, especially along Poplar Springs Rd in the extreme northeast part of the county.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLavonia-Multiple trees were blown down in the area near Gerrard Rd and highway 328.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLavonia-Two trees were blown down on highway 328 in the northeast corner of the county.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLavonia-A tree was blown down on Rainbow Dr in Lavonia.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLavonia-Numerous trees were blown down in extreme northern Franklin County. Affected roads incldued Laurel Circle and Mountain View Rd.
July 2008HailLavonia-Hail was reported near the intersection of Hillshore Rd and Lake View Dr.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLavonia-A tree blown down on highway 59 in Lavonia, and another down on Clarks Creek Rd.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLavonia-A tree was blown down on Clarks Creek Rd and another was blown down on Stone Bridge Rd.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLavonia-Roof blown off of a shed.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindLavonia-Trees down across several roads in and around Lavonia.
July 2001HailLavonia-Dime-sized hail reported at Interstate 85 exit number 173.
May 2004HailLavonia-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindLavonia-no account filed
April 1999HailLavonia-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLavonia-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindLavonia-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindLavonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Whitworth3.4 miles15
Fairview3.5 miles15
Gumlog3.9 miles15
Poplar Grove5.4 miles18
Salubrity (historical)6.0 miles15
Parhams7.1 miles15
Vandiver8.1 miles13
Red Hill8.1 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 LavoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2794607The 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 316687. 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.