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Morgan, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Morgan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39866. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morgan quadrangle. 1,741 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 246 feet above sea level.

Morgan within Calhoun County

Population over time

3 figures

Morgan grew from 1,464 to 1,741 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
20001,464
2010240-1,224 (-84%)
20201,741+1,501 (+625%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Morgan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 1 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 burning64
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CALHOUN-003
25 August 1996Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CALHOUN-002
9 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CALHOUN-001
8 July 1998Natural8.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morgan in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
April 2007Tornado (EF0)Morgan$10,000A weak tornado briefly touched down just north of Morgan. It damaged a structure and felled numerous trees.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindMorgan$3,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the county.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMorgan$2,000A few trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMorgan$1,000The Calhoun County Sheriff reported some trees down around State Highway 234.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMorgan$500Calhoun County S.O. reported several downed trees and dime size hail.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMorgan$500Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees and power lines along Georgia Highway 37.
February 2024Flash FloodMorgan-A drainage pond overflowed its embankment, and six to eight inches of water covered a portion of Georgia Highway 45.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMorgan-Trees were blown down along Highway 37 between Leary and Morgan.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindMorgan-Two trees were blown down on Williamsburg Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMorgan-Several trees were blown down.
December 2018FloodMorgan-There were a few reports of water over the roadways in Calhoun county.
May 2012HailMorgan-Hail up to the size of quarters was reported in Morgan.
April 1998HailMorgan-Nickel sized hail reported at the Calhoun County Jail.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Dickey3.5 miles7
Cordrays Mill4.0 miles7
Williamsburg5.1 miles8
Folks (historical)5.7 miles7
Leary5.8 miles8
Bermuda6.6 miles9
Commissary Hill7.0 miles8
Turman7.3 miles7

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 MorganAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2194573The 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 318451. 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.