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Newington, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Newington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30446. The Survey maps it on the Oliver quadrangle. 290 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Newington within Screven County

Population over time

3 figures

Newington fell from 322 to 290 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
2000322
2010274-48 (-15%)
2020290+16 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Newington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,618 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 53 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 burning147
Arson/incendiarism53
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
7 September 2010Debris and open burning3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-030
7 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-028
7 September 2010Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-029
7 September 2010Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-031
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-026
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-027
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-025
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-024

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newington in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2013Heavy RainNewington$10,000A Semi truck ran into a downed tree on Old Creek Road. The driver was transported to the hospital for injuries.
May 1998Tornado (F1)Newington$10,000An above ground swimming pool destroyed, out buildings destroyed, minor roof damage to homes and numerous trees snapped off or uprooted.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindNewington$5,000Numerous trees and powerlines down.
November 1996Tornado (F0)Newington$5,000no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindNewington$2,000Law Enforcement reported a 10 foot by 16 foot awning torn off a patio, with metal support pipes broken in half, at a residence in Newington Georgia.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNewington$1,500A new awning was blown off of a business.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNewington$1,250The Screven County 911 Call Center reported power lines down near 9762 Newington Highway.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindNewington$1,000The Screven County 911 Call Center reported power lines down near the intersection of Oliver Highway and Highway 21.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNewington$1,000The police reported 1 powerline down on Middleground Road.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNewington$1,000Two trees were reported down on Faith Temple Road.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindNewington$500Law Enforcement reported a tree down along Ben Branch Road, one mile east of Newington, Georgia.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNewington$500Numerous large tree limbs were reported down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindNewington$500A few large trees were downed along Georgia Highway 21 one mile north of Newington.
May 2022HailNewington-Local broadcast media relayed a report of nickel sized hail in Newington.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNewington-Screven County dispatch reported several trees down along Highway 21 near the Screven and Effingham county line.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindNewington-A report via social media indicated trees uprooted and snapped off near the intersection of Pryor Road and Newington, GA.
June 2019HailNewington-A police officer reported quarter size hail in Newington.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindNewington-Screven County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Woodpecker Trail and Runs Branch Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNewington-A spotter reported 50 to 60 mph winds with a thunderstorm outflow boundary.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindNewington-A tree was reported down near the intersection of Sweetgum Street and Oliver Highway.
June 2008HailNewington-A trained weather spotter reported penny size hail 5 miles east-northeast of Newington, Georgia.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindNewington-Numerous trees and power lines down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindNewington-Trees and power lines down.
April 1999HailNewington-Dime to quarter sized hail covered the ground for a couple of hours.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindNewington-Several trees down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindNewington-Trees down.
May 2007HailNewington-no account filed
April 2007HailNewington-no account filed
February 2004HailNewington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Screven 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
Eureka Springs (historical)1.4 miles16
Sheppards3.7 miles16
Middleground3.8 miles16
Stalco4.9 miles16
Oliver5.0 miles16
Hunters5.1 miles16
Blue Springs5.3 miles15
Eneck (historical)5.4 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 NewingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2779956The 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 332497. 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.