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Parrott, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Parrott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39877. The Survey maps it on the Parrott quadrangle. 120 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Parrott within Terrell County

On record in Parrott

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Parrott fell from 156 to 120 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
2000156
2010158+2 (+1%)
2020120-38 (-24%)

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.

Fires near this place

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Parrott between 1992 and 2019, burning about 500 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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 burning90
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
28 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-TERRELL-004
25 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-WEBSTER-002
25 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-WEBSTER-003
23 September 2010Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TERRELL-004
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TERRELL-003
2 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Debris and open burning11 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WEBSTER-002
29 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Terrell County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parrott in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Thunderstorm WindParrott$10,000A tree was blown down onto a house.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindParrott$3,000Multiple trees were blown down in Parrott.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindParrott$3,000A couple of power lines were blown down along Highway 520.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindParrott$3,000Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down in northern part of the county. The thunderstorm winds ripped off a tin roof, blew down trees of varying sizes and scattered limbs and debris.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindParrott$2,000Power lines were blown down in the Parrot area.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindParrott-Two trees were blown down in the Parrott area.
March 2020FloodParrott-Several roads were flooded within Terrell county but outside the city of Dawson.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindParrott-Two trees were blown down near Parrot along Highway 520.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindParrott-Around 3-4 acres of wheat crop were flattened from thunderstorm winds in northwest Terrell county.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindParrott-Trees were down in Parrott.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindParrott-Several trees were blown down across roads in Parrott.
June 2007HailParrott-Quarter size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Terrell 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
Chenube (historical)1.6 miles7
Chambliss2.4 miles7
Worner (historical)2.9 miles7
Oakville3.8 miles7
Cottondale4.2 miles7
Yeomans4.7 miles7
Belmont (historical)5.9 miles7
Pleasant Hill6.0 miles7

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 ParrottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2502982The 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 320249. 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.