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Mount Vernon, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mount Vernon-Ailey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30445. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 1,990 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Mount Vernon within Montgomery County

On record in Mount Vernon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Mount Vernon fell from 2,082 to 1,990 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
20002,082
20102,451+369 (+18%)
20201,990-461 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

374 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 374 fires within 5 miles of Mount Vernon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,119 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 54 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 burning228
Arson/incendiarism54
Equipment and vehicle use33
Smoking17
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor9

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
6 September 1999Natural2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-MONTGOMERY-009
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WHEELER-010
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-MONTGOMERY-008
24 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MONTGOMERY-006
18 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-WHEELER-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mount Vernon: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 2 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mt Vernon Mine Montgomery Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mt. Vernon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerAlluvium
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerAlluvium
Unnamed Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerAlluvium

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Vernon in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 1993Thunderstorm WindMount Vernon$50,000The thunderstorm that spawned the small tornado in Wheeler County produced a short path of damage in Montgomery County. Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees and caused minor property damage from Mount Vernon to near Ailey. The storm ripped the siding off a mobile home at Mount Vernon. Power outages developed after utility lines were damaged.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMount Vernon$3,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees and one telephone pole. Some of the trees destroyed were more than 60-years-old.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Ailey1.6 miles9
McGregor4.9 miles9
Oak Grove4.9 miles9
Petross7.1 miles9
Higgston7.3 miles9
Kibbee8.4 miles8
Alston9.2 miles8
Tarrytown9.9 miles8

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 Mount VernonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2669320The 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 318897. 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.