Mitchell, Georgia
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mitchell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30820. The Survey maps it on the Mitchell quadrangle. 153 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 535 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMitchell fell from 173 to 153 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 173 | |
| 2010 | 199 | +26 (+15%) |
| 2020 | 153 | -46 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
179 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Mitchell between 1992 and 2019, burning about 986 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 6 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 | 106 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020WARREN010 |
| 21 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020WARREN008 |
| 20 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-GLASCOCK-007 |
| 1 September 1993 | Natural | 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 Mitchell: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, Free. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrens Kaolin Area | Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, Free | Prospect | 1961 |
Storms near this place
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mitchell in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchell | $110,000 | The Glascock County Emergency Manager reported that numerous trees and power lines were blown down from the Mitchell area to the Edgehill area. Several large pines and at least one power pole were snapped. Two homes were damaged by falling trees and several roads were blocked. A tin roof was ripped off of a mobile home, and the south end of the county was without power. |
| February 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Mitchell | $25,000 | A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the EF3 tornado that first touched down in Hancock county, causing extensive damage in the Hickory Grove Community as well as killing one and injuring three, continued across extreme southern Warren and into extreme northwest Glascock counties before lifting. The tornado remained a weaker EF1 with a maximum path width of 100 yards as it crossed from Warren into Glascock county. The tornado traveled a total distance of nearly 11 miles, but less than two miles within Glascock county. Within Glascock county, the tornado tracked across a very rural area. Thus, damage was confined to around a hundred downed trees. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchell | $7,000 | The Glascock County 911 Center reported that several trees were uprooted or snapped in half in the northwest part of the county between Mitchell and the Washington County line. A barn sustained moderate damage on Georgia Highway 102 near Mitchell. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchell | $6,000 | The Glascock County 911 Center reported that from two to three dozen trees were down in the northwest part of the county around Mitchell. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchell | $1,500 | The Glascock County Emergency Manager reported several trees were blown down between Highway 123 and County Line Road Southwest. The trees were mostly rotten. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mitchell | $500 | The Glascock County 911 Center Reported a couple of trees down. |
| January 1996 | Hail | Mitchell | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricola | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Blume | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Five Points | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Gibson | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Edgehill | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Glovers Millpond | 8.5 miles | 9 | |
| Harts | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| Bastonville | 10.9 miles | 9 |
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 Mitchell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2402950 | 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 318336. 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.






