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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.

Luthersville within Meriwether County

Population over time

2 figures

Luthersville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010874
2020776-98 (-11%)

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

251 since 1992

Regional 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 burning156
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
7 September 1997Smoking3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MERIWETHER-003
5 September 1997Debris and open burning8.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Debris and open burning5.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bingham PropertyGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Lone Oak/Post/WilkesGoldPast ProducerVein
PostGoldProspectVein
WilkesGoldProspectVein

Every working recorded in Meriwether County

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2013HailLuthersville$371,000The Meriwether County 911 Center relayed numerous reports of damage from baseball sized hail in Luthersville.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLuthersville$50,000The 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 2014Thunderstorm WindLuthersville$5,000The Meriwether County 911 Center reported two trees blown down near Luthersville. One down on power lines, another down on a house.
November 2004Thunderstorm WindLuthersville$5,000The Meriwether County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were blown down.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindLuthersville$5,000The 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 2007Thunderstorm WindLuthersville$3,000The 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 2009Tornado (EF0)Luthersville$1,000A 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 2003Thunderstorm WindLuthersville$1,000The Meriwether county 911 center reported that trees were down in the Primrose Circle area.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLuthersville$500The Meriwether County 911 Center reported a couple of trees down in the extreme northwestern portion of the county, along with several power outages.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLuthersville$500The Meriwether County 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down.
June 2023HailLuthersville-Mping report of quarter sized hail in Luthersville.
June 2023HailLuthersville-Report of 2 inch hail via social media in Moreland.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindLuthersville-A deputy with the Meriwether County Sheriff's Office reported that several trees and power lines were down around Luthersville.
September 2010HailLuthersville-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 2008HailLuthersville-A storm spotter observed penny-sized hail in extreme northwest Meriwether county, between Luthersville and the Troup county line.
March 2003HailLuthersville-The Meriwether county 911 center reported nickel size hail.
May 2000HailLuthersville-Two public reports indicated dime to quarter size hail fell in Luthersville.
October 1997HailLuthersville-The public reported dime to quarter size hail in and around Luthersville.
June 1998HailLuthersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meriwether 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
Midway4.5 miles8
Primrose4.6 miles8
Lone Oak4.6 miles10
Rocky Mount4.9 miles8
Saint Marks7.1 miles10
Wooster7.7 miles8
Allie7.7 miles8
Alps8.6 miles9

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 LuthersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2163399The 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.