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Matthews, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wrens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30818. The Survey maps it on the Matthews quadrangle. 146 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Matthews within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Matthews fell from 150 to 146 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
2010150
2020146-4 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Matthews between 1992 and 2020, burning about 832 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 12 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 burning152
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking15
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony5

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
30 September 2016Debris and open burning3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-JEFFERSON-009
26 September 2019Debris and open burning3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JEFFERSON010
2 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021JEFFERSON005
15 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019JEFFERSON005
14 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019BURKE008
6 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JEFFERSON-010
6 August 2006Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2001Misuse of fire by a minor4.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-JEFFERSON-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Matthews: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Iron. 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
Norton PitIronOccurrence
Wrens Mine Ga-Tenn MiningClayProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Noah1.2 miles16
Stellaville1.9 miles16
Padgett Crossing (historical)2.6 miles16
Brinson Crossing2.8 miles16
Zebina4.0 miles16
Wrens4.5 miles16
Atwell5.0 miles16
Wrens Station5.1 miles16

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 MatthewsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6006498The 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 332331. 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.