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Meansville, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Meansville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30256. The Survey maps it on the Zebulon quadrangle. 266 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Meansville within Pike County

Population over time

3 figures

Meansville grew from 192 to 266 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.

YearPeople Change
2000192
2010182-10 (-5%)
2020266+84 (+46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Meansville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,053 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 21 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 burning170
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Natural5
Smoking4

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
5 September 1997Debris and open burning12 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020PIKE003
20 September 1997Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2011Debris and open burning33 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-UPSON-005
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Meansville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, 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
W.M.Hartley PropertyManganese, IronProspect

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meansville in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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 2010LightningMeansville$25,000The Pike County 911 Center reported that two homes were struck by lightning. No further information or damage details were provided.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindMeansville$20,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMeansville$3,000Several trees down along pine valley road one tree on a home.
March 2023Flash FloodMeansville-Law Enforcement reported water over the bridge along Highway 109 East. In addition to the 1.5 inches of rain that fell the previous day, radar estimates indicate that 4 to 6 inches, with isolated amounts of up to 8 inches, fell on March 26, resulting in the flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Old Newnan (historical)0.9 miles9
Rose Hill1.8 miles9
Vega2.0 miles9
Clearwater Springs2.5 miles9
Lifsey3.6 miles9
Weaver (historical)3.7 miles9
Zebulon4.1 miles9
Smiths Chapel6.3 miles9

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 MeansvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2586215The 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 332364. 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.