BlockLyons, Georgia
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vidalia-Lyons census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30436. The Survey maps it on the Lyons quadrangle. 4,239 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.
On record in Lyons
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Robert and Missouri Garbutt Houselisted 2000
Lyons Woman's Club Houselisted 1985
Jim Smith Houselisted 1989
Population over time
3 figuresLyons grew from 4,169 to 4,239 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 4,169 | |
| 2010 | 4,367 | +198 (+5%) |
| 2020 | 4,239 | -128 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Vidalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
541 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 541 fires within 5 miles of Lyons between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,437 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 96 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 | 288 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 96 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 59 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-TOOMBS-012 |
| 3 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-TOOMBS-003 |
| 2 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019TOOMBS004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Lightning | Lyons | 1 killed | The Advance Progress Newspaper of Vidalia reported that lightning struck and killed a 45-year old man while on a construction site at the Toombs County Middle School on Center Road. The individual was part of a crew of construction workers at the school. While the others had sought shelter in their vehicles during the thunderstorm, the worker killed had returned to the construction site to retrieve some tools. It was while doing this that he was struck and killed by lightning. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $6,000 | The Toombs County 911 center reported numerous trees blown down across the county, including in Lyons. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $5,000 | Toombs county 911 reported power lines and trees knocked down and an onion shed destroyed. Hail of unknown size also fell. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $3,000 | The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that at least six trees were down across the county. Several power outages were noted as well. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $3,000 | The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that a thunderstorm downburst blew down 10 to 20 trees northeast of Lyons. In addition, one home lost about 40 shingles. One tree was also down in the city of Lyons as well. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $2,000 | Toombs county 911 reported trees blown down in Lyons, and county-wide power outages. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $1,000 | Tree down at intersection of Jones Street and Clifton Avenue. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $1,000 | The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that three trees were down around Lyons. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $1,000 | The Toombs county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $1,000 | Toombs county 911 reported power lines down on highway 86. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $500 | The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that two trees were down on Aim Wells Road just off U.S. Highway 1. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $500 | The Toombs county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down. |
| February 2008 | Hail | Lyons | - | The Toombs County 911 Center relayed a report of penny-sized hail east of Lyons. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lyons | - | The public reported dime size hail on Georgia Highway 178. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | - | The Toombs county 911 center reported pea size hail. |
| July 2001 | Flood | Lyons | - | The Toombs county 911 center reported that there was minor flooding of Georgia Highway 152. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Lyons | - | Toombs county 911 reported dime size hail. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lyons | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Claus | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Ponderosa | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Vidalia | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Elton (historical) | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Ohoopee | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Charles | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Center | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| South Thompson | 7.1 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 Lyons | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2549934 | 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 317505. 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.