Luthersville, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Luthersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30251. The Survey maps it on the Luthersville quadrangle. 776 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLuthersville fell from 874 to 776 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 | 874 | |
| 2020 | 776 | -98 (-11%) |
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 Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Luthersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
251 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Luthersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,028 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 21 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 | 156 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-MERIWETHER-003 |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 8.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Luthersville: 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bingham Property | Gold | Past Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Lone Oak/Post/Wilkes | Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Post | Gold | Prospect | Vein | |
| Wilkes | Gold | Prospect | Vein |
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luthersville in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 9 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2013 | Hail | Luthersville | $371,000 | The Meriwether County 911 Center relayed numerous reports of damage from baseball sized hail in Luthersville. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luthersville | $50,000 | The Meriwether County Emergency Manager reported that two trees fell on houses in Luthersville, one on Gilbert Circle. Five to six other trees were down across town as well. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luthersville | $5,000 | The Meriwether County 911 Center reported two trees blown down near Luthersville. One down on power lines, another down on a house. |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luthersville | $5,000 | The Meriwether County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luthersville | $5,000 | The public reported thunderstorm winds knocked down three pine trees and twisted the top off of an oak tree in Luthersville. In Primrose, large trees were knocked down onto a church and another building. The steeple was also blown off the church. In Greenville, a spotter heard a roaring noise like a tornado but did not have a visual sighting. |
| January 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luthersville | $3,000 | The Meriwether County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees were down across the northern part of the county, mainly in the Luthersville area. One large power line was also down on Bates Road. |
| February 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Luthersville | $1,000 | A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the EF2 tornado that caused extensive damage across southern Coweta county and into Spalding county initially touched down just inside the Meriwether county line at 923 Bradberry Road. The property at this address straddles the Meriwether/Coweta county line. Damage within Meriwether county was primarily confined to a fence. The tornado was likely less intense within its short distance in Meriwether county than its maximum EF2 rating in Coweta and Spalding counties. The tornado tracked less than 50 feet within Meriwether county. Maximum path width within Meriwether county was less than 100 feet. |
| March 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luthersville | $1,000 | The Meriwether county 911 center reported that trees were down in the Primrose Circle area. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luthersville | $500 | The Meriwether County 911 Center reported a couple of trees down in the extreme northwestern portion of the county, along with several power outages. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luthersville | $500 | The Meriwether County 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Luthersville | - | Mping report of quarter sized hail in Luthersville. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Luthersville | - | Report of 2 inch hail via social media in Moreland. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luthersville | - | A deputy with the Meriwether County Sheriff's Office reported that several trees and power lines were down around Luthersville. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Luthersville | - | The Meriwether County Sheriff's Office reported that hail was observed near Luthersville. Although a specific size was not specified, radar data across northern Meriwether county was analogous to several storms in neighboring counties that produced quarter or larger-sized hail. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Luthersville | - | A storm spotter observed penny-sized hail in extreme northwest Meriwether county, between Luthersville and the Troup county line. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Luthersville | - | The Meriwether county 911 center reported nickel size hail. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Luthersville | - | Two public reports indicated dime to quarter size hail fell in Luthersville. |
| October 1997 | Hail | Luthersville | - | The public reported dime to quarter size hail in and around Luthersville. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Luthersville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midway | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Primrose | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Lone Oak | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Rocky Mount | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Saint Marks | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Wooster | 7.7 miles | 8 | |
| Allie | 7.7 miles | 8 | |
| Alps | 8.6 miles | 9 |
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 Luthersville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2163399 | 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 317494. 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.




