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.
Population over time
2 figuresLeary 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 618 | |
| 2020 | 524 | -94 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Leary quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
78 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 52 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020CALHOUN003 |
| 13 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CALHOUN-004 |
| 9 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-CALHOUN-001 |
| 31 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-CALHOUN-005 |
| 3 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-CALHOUN-001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Leary | $250,000 | An 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leary | $100,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leary | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down near Leary. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leary | $2,000 | A few trees were blown down across eastern Calhoun county. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leary | $500 | Thunderstorm winds knocked several trees down along County Road 148. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leary | $500 | Pataula Electric reported a large tree had fallen across a power line which resulted in numerous outages across the county. |
| February 2024 | Flash Flood | Leary | - | Several roads were flooded across Calhoun county. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leary | - | Two trees were blown down in Leary. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leary | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leary | - | Trees were reported down in Leary. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Leary | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported on Wildwood Road in Leary. |
| March 1998 | Hail | Leary | - | 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 2024 | Hail | Leary | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bermuda | 1.2 miles | 9 | |
| Holt | 3.4 miles | 9 | |
| Williamsburg | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Morgan | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Cordrays Mill | 7.6 miles | 7 | |
| Oak Hill | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Commissary Hill | 8.4 miles | 8 | |
| Dickey | 9.2 miles | 7 |
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 Leary | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2274620 | 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 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.




