McDonough, Georgia
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the McDonough census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30253. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the McDonough quadrangle. 29,051 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.
On record in McDonough
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 6 records
Brown Houselisted 1991
Globe Hotellisted 1985
Henry County Courthouselisted 1980
James and Bertha Hooten Houselisted 2009
McDonough Historic Districtlisted 2007- Lawrenceville Street Historic Districtlisted 2009
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Lowe-Turner House, 88 Keys Ferry Street, McDonoughfederal building survey, 13 photographs
- Lowe-Turner House, Outbuilding, 88 Keys Ferry Street, McDonoughfederal building survey, 1 photograph
Population over time
2 figuresMcDonough grew from 22,084 to 29,051 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 22,084 | |
| 2020 | 29,051 | +6,967 (+32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Mc Donough quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Photographs
2 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
219 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of McDonough between 1992 and 2020, burning about 570 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 35 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 | 92 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 35 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 34 |
| Smoking | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 58 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-HENRY-006 |
| 21 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of McDonough: 1 past producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walker Property | Gold | Past Producer | Vein |
Storms near this place
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McDonough in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | McDonough | $300 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree east of Hampton and knocked power lines down in Hampton and McDonough. |
| April 1995 | Hail | McDonough | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacksville | 0.9 miles | 11 | |
| Flippen | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Greenwood | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Julia | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Tunis (historical) | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Brannan | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Ola | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Millers Mill | 6.1 miles | 18 |
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 McDonough | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2075251 | 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 317901. 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.




