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Leary, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39862. The Survey maps it on the Leary quadrangle. 524 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Leary within Calhoun County

Population over time

2 figures

Leary fell from 618 to 524 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
2010618
2020524-94 (-15%)

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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Leary between 1992 and 2019, burning about 437 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning52
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
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
28 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2008Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CALHOUN003
13 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CALHOUN-004
9 July 2011Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-CALHOUN-001
31 July 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CALHOUN-005
3 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CALHOUN-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leary in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
January 2017Tornado (EF0)Leary$250,000An EF0 tornado with max winds near 85 mph touched down along Mercer Ave and lifted near Bray St in the town of Leary. Damage consisted of numerous uprooted trees and minor damage to several roofs. Several outbuildings were also damaged, and numerous power lines and power poles were blown down. Damage cost was estimated.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindLeary$100,000Thunderstorm winds ripped the porch off a farmhouse, toppled several trees and power lines, and damaged a pump house, two tractors and an irrigation system. Reported by the Albany News Herald.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLeary$2,000Power lines were blown down near Leary.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindLeary$2,000A few trees were blown down across eastern Calhoun county. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLeary$500Thunderstorm winds knocked several trees down along County Road 148.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindLeary$500Pataula Electric reported a large tree had fallen across a power line which resulted in numerous outages across the county.
February 2024Flash FloodLeary-Several roads were flooded across Calhoun county.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindLeary-Two trees were blown down in Leary.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLeary-Several trees were blown down.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindLeary-Trees were reported down in Leary.
July 2007HailLeary-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported on Wildwood Road in Leary.
March 1998HailLeary-Golfball sized hail in Leary. Central Georgia Rail tracks washed out between Leary and Arlington. Flooding reported at the intersection of Highways 62 and 55.
December 2024HailLeary-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Bermuda1.2 miles9
Holt3.4 miles9
Williamsburg4.7 miles8
Morgan5.8 miles7
Cordrays Mill7.6 miles7
Oak Hill8.3 miles9
Commissary Hill8.4 miles8
Dickey9.2 miles7

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 LearyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2274620The 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 332194. 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.