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Mount Zion, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mount Zion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30117. It stands on Little Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bremen quadrangle. 1,766 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.

Mount Zion within Carroll County

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Zion grew from 1,696 to 1,766 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
20101,696
20201,766+70 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

285 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 285 fires within 5 miles of Mount Zion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 792 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 108 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
Arson/incendiarism108
Debris and open burning102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural8
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CARROLL-007
5 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARALSON-004
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-CARROLL-001
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll 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
Jake2.5 miles15
Bowdon Junction2.9 miles15
Mandeville3.0 miles15
Luckie (historical)3.1 miles15
Plowshare (historical)3.6 miles15
Burwell3.9 miles15
Buck Creek (historical)4.2 miles16
Miller Academy4.4 miles15

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 ZionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443737The 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 332438. 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.