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Lithia Springs, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Douglasville-Lithia Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30122. The Survey maps it on the Austell quadrangle. 16,644 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Lithia Springs within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Lithia Springs grew from 15,491 to 16,644 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
201015,491
202016,644+1,153 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Lithia Springs between 1992 and 2018, burning about 287 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 29 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 burning33
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1995Arson/incendiarism2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1993Arson/incendiarism6.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lithia Springs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Lithia Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Ansley Park0.3 miles20
Oak Hill0.4 miles20
Whitaker Hills0.4 miles20
Anna Bella Estates0.6 miles20
Tammy Heights0.7 miles20
Skyview Heights0.8 miles20
Heritage Square0.8 miles20
Brookwood Acres0.9 miles20

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 Lithia SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3130627The 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 356358. 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.