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Martin, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Martin-Avalon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30557. The Survey maps it on the Martin quadrangle. 336 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Martin within Stephens County

On record in Martin

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Martin fell from 381 to 336 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
2010381
2020336-45 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 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

343 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 343 fires within 5 miles of Martin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 528 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 68 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 burning186
Arson/incendiarism68
Equipment and vehicle use26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking10
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FRANKLIN-006
5 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FRANKLIN-012
29 September 2003Smoking1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-FRANKLIN-002
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FRANKLIN-010
25 September 2016Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FRANKLIN-009
20 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martin in 2 storm reports in 2000: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMartin-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMartin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
Avalon1.2 miles18
Toms Creek3.2 miles15
Fairview3.6 miles18
Eastanollee4.4 miles17
Union Hill5.3 miles17
Fighting Pine6.3 miles18
Hayes Crossing6.5 miles17
Mize8.1 miles13

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 MartinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3261150The 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 317732. 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.