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Mansfield, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mansfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30055. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield quadrangle. 442 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Mansfield within Newton County

Population over time

2 figures

Mansfield grew from 410 to 442 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
2010410
2020442+32 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Mansfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 716 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 18 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 burning110
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
26 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-JASPER-004
20 September 2013Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-NEWTON-001
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-NEWTON-012
16 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2001Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-NEWTON-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mansfield in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
August 2007LightningMansfield$25,000The Newton County 911 Center reported that lightning struck a home in the Mansfield area. Damage was indeterminate. A few large tree limbs were down in Covington from wind gusts.
July 2003Flash FloodMansfield-The public reported that drainage ditches in the area were well out of their banks and water was flowing across the roads.
August 2003HailMansfield-The Newton county 911 center reported quarter-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Jerusalem0.4 miles16
Mansfield Estates0.9 miles17
Silver Lake1.2 miles17
Hayston1.8 miles17
Newborn2.0 miles16
Brookwood East3.5 miles17
Pine Grove3.7 miles16
Hollow Hills3.7 miles17

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 MansfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2237827The 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 317666. 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.