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Montgomery, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31406. It stands on Breakfast Creek. The Survey maps it on the Isle of Hope quadrangle. 4,443 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Montgomery within Chatham County

Population over time

2 figures

Montgomery fell from 4,523 to 4,443 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
20104,523
20204,443-80 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2017

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.

Aerial view of the Little Ogeechee River, near Montgomery, Georgia
Aerial view of the Little Ogeechee River, near Montgomery, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Montgomery between 1992 and 2017, burning about 322 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 burning20
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking4
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-002
26 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2000Recreation and ceremony6.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CHATHAM-006
4 June 1996Debris and open burning4.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 June 1996Recreation and ceremony14 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 June 1993Debris and open burning8.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montgomery in 1 storm report in 2016: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Tornado (EFU)Montgomery-Numerous reports and pictures indicated that a brief waterspout occurred along the Little Ogeechee River just south of Coffee Bluff Marina.

Every storm recorded in Chatham 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
Burnside0.7 miles15
Beaulieu0.7 miles15
Mount Pleasant1.4 miles17
Vernon View1.5 miles15
Mount Herman1.5 miles17
Nicholsonville1.5 miles17
Coffee Bluff Plantation1.6 miles17
Coffee Bluff1.7 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 MontgomeryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1946272The 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 332411. 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.