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.
Population over time
3 figuresMorgan 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,464 | |
| 2010 | 240 | -1,224 (-84%) |
| 2020 | 1,741 | +1,501 (+625%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Morgan quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
101 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 64 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CALHOUN-003 |
| 25 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-CALHOUN-002 |
| 9 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CALHOUN-001 |
| 8 July 1998 | Natural | 8.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Morgan | $10,000 | A weak tornado briefly touched down just north of Morgan. It damaged a structure and felled numerous trees. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | $3,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the county. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | $2,000 | A few trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | $1,000 | The Calhoun County Sheriff reported some trees down around State Highway 234. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | $500 | Calhoun County S.O. reported several downed trees and dime size hail. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | $500 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees and power lines along Georgia Highway 37. |
| February 2024 | Flash Flood | Morgan | - | A drainage pond overflowed its embankment, and six to eight inches of water covered a portion of Georgia Highway 45. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | - | Trees were blown down along Highway 37 between Leary and Morgan. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | - | Two trees were blown down on Williamsburg Road. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| December 2018 | Flood | Morgan | - | There were a few reports of water over the roadways in Calhoun county. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Morgan | - | Hail up to the size of quarters was reported in Morgan. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Morgan | - | Nickel sized hail reported at the Calhoun County Jail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dickey | 3.5 miles | 7 | |
| Cordrays Mill | 4.0 miles | 7 | |
| Williamsburg | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Folks (historical) | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Leary | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Bermuda | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Commissary Hill | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Turman | 7.3 miles | 7 |
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 Morgan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2194573 | 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 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.




