Morven, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Morven census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31638. The Survey maps it on the Hahira West quadrangle. 506 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 217 feet above sea level.

Morven within Brooks County

Population over time

2 figures

Morven fell from 565 to 506 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	565
2020	506	-59 (-10%)

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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Hahira West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

455 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 455 fires within 5 miles of Morven between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,580 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 68 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	270
Arson/incendiarism	68
Equipment and vehicle use	50
Railroad operations and maintenance	43
Natural	9
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brooks County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Morven: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Allen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morven in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 24 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
November 1995	Tornado (F1)	Morven	$75,000	One repair garage was destroyed as a tornado moved across Highway 94. The tornado snapped several pine trees with one falling on a car and another on a house.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	$5,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down in Morven. Monetary damage was estimated.
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	$3,000	A Brooks County Sheriff deputy reported several downed trees and power lines.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	$2,000	Power poles were blown down at the intersection of Campground Road and Highway 76.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	$2,000	A tree was blown down onto a power lines, resulting in a power outage to 54 customers along Gin Street on the west side of Morven. This was reported on the Georgia Power outage map.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	$2,000	A tree was blown down and resulted in a power outage to 496 customers near Morven as reported on the Georgia Power outage website.
December 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	$2,000	Power lines were blown down in Morven. Monetary damage was estimated.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	$2,000	Trees were blown down around Jackson Road and Highway 76. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	$1,500	At least two trees were blown down. Monetary damage was estimated.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	$1,000	Trees were blown down at Cooper and Jackson Road.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	$1,000	The Brooks county 911 dispatch reported a power line down along Highway 133. Monetary damage was estimated.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	A tree was blown down in Morven.
April 2024	Flash Flood	Morven	-	Water was running across the road on State Highway 333 near Redwood Lane.
February 2023	Flash Flood	Morven	-	There were a few reports of water over a few roadways in Brooks county.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	Trees were blown down on Rolling Hills Road.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	Multiple trees were blown down across the county.
March 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	A couple of trees were blown down.
September 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Morven	-	A tornado tracked along the Brooks/Lowndes county line with damage to trees. A dual-pol tornadic debris signature was observed on radar. No structural damage was reported, and this tornado was rated EF0.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	A tree was blown down at Highway 133 and Studstill Road.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	A tree blew down onto power lines along Highway 133.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	Trees were blown down onto Lawson Mill Pond Road.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	A tree was blown down onto Highway 76 in Morven.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	A tree was blown down onto Adel Highway south of Morven.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	Trees were blown down along Jackson Road.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	Trees were blown down near Morven.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	Several trees were blown down across northern Brooks county near Highway 133.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	Several very large pine trees were felled by a downburst.
May 1998	Hail	Morven	-	Quarter sized hail accumulated four inches deep in Morven.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Morven	-	Several trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Brooks 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kennedy (historical)	2.0 miles	8
Tillman (historical)	4.1 miles	7
Pebble Hill	4.5 miles	8
Barney	4.7 miles	9
Spain	5.7 miles	8
New Rock Hill	5.7 miles	9
Golden (historical)	5.8 miles	7
Old Rock Hill	6.2 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 Morven	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2237744	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 318505. 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.