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Menlo, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Menlo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30731. It lies near Lawrence Gulf. The Survey maps it on the Lyerly quadrangle. 480 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.

Menlo within Chattooga County

Population over time

2 figures

Menlo grew from 474 to 480 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
2010474
2020480+6 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

589 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 589 fires within 5 miles of Menlo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,764 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 389 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
Arson/incendiarism389
Debris and open burning139
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

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 2016Debris and open burning2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATTOOGA-011
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CHATTOOGA005
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHATTOOGA-018
30 September 1993Debris and open burning5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattooga County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Menlo in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 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 2008HailMenlo$400,000The Chattooga County Emergency Management Director observed golf ball-sized hail approximately three miles south-southwest of Summerville. The public observed nickel-sized hail in the Menlo area. Radar supported nickel or larger size hail in a large swath across the central and southern parts of the county from Menlo, to the Floyd county line south of James H. Floyd State Park.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMenlo$20,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down large trees onto a church and a residence. Power lines were also downed. The time was estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMenlo$15,000The Chattooga County Emergency Manager reported several trees and power lines blown down between the 4500 and 5500 block of State Hwy 48, east of Menlo. At least one vehicle was hit by falling trees and two others were involved in accidents related to the event. No serious injuries were reported.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMenlo$3,000The public and the Chattooga county 911 center reported that a number of trees were down, including several large trees which were down across Georgia Highway 48.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMenlo$2,500The Chattooga County 911 Center reported that at least 10 trees were blown down along Georgia Highway 337 between Menlo, Chelsea, and Teloga.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMenlo$2,000Em reports two trees down east of Menlo .
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMenlo$500A public report indicated 2 big trees were knocked down across a road.
March 2021Flash FloodMenlo-The Emergency Manager reported water over Yarbrough Road, making it impassable. Radar estimates indicate that rainfall in the area ranged between 3 and 5 inches, resulting in the flash flooding.
April 2005HailMenlo-The public reported nickel-sized hail in Menlo and Trion, with dime-sized hail just east of Lyerly.
February 2005HailMenlo-The public reported quarter-sized hail two miles east of Lyerly, while an amateur radio operator reported nickel-sized hail in Menlo.
May 2005HailMenlo-An amateur radio operator reported quarter-sized hail in Menlo while an off-duty police officer reported quarter-sized hail west of Menlo.
May 2005HailMenlo-The public reported yet another round of hail, this time nickel-sized.
May 2002HailMenlo-The public reported dime size hail in Summerville and dime size hail was observed at the Post Office in Menlo. A large tree limb was also blown down in Menlo.
June 1999HailMenlo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chattooga 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
Mineral Springs (historical)0.6 miles17
Fairview (historical)2.1 miles17
Alpine2.2 miles17
Cloudland2.4 miles24
Chelsea3.3 miles24
Perennial3.9 miles17
Broomtown (historical)4.7 miles24
Berryton5.3 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 MenloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2600988The 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 332373. 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.