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.
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
- Parrott Historic Districtlisted 2004
Population over time
3 figuresParrott 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 156 | |
| 2010 | 158 | +2 (+1%) |
| 2020 | 120 | -38 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Parrott quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
128 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 90 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-TERRELL-004 |
| 25 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-WEBSTER-002 |
| 25 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-WEBSTER-003 |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-TERRELL-004 |
| 20 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-TERRELL-003 |
| 2 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-WEBSTER-002 |
| 29 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parrott | $10,000 | A tree was blown down onto a house. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parrott | $3,000 | Multiple trees were blown down in Parrott. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parrott | $3,000 | A couple of power lines were blown down along Highway 520. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parrott | $3,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parrott | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down in the Parrot area. |
| January 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parrott | - | Two trees were blown down in the Parrott area. |
| March 2020 | Flood | Parrott | - | Several roads were flooded within Terrell county but outside the city of Dawson. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parrott | - | Two trees were blown down near Parrot along Highway 520. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parrott | - | Around 3-4 acres of wheat crop were flattened from thunderstorm winds in northwest Terrell county. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parrott | - | Trees were down in Parrott. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parrott | - | Several trees were blown down across roads in Parrott. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Parrott | - | Quarter size hail was observed. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chenube (historical) | 1.6 miles | 7 | |
| Chambliss | 2.4 miles | 7 | |
| Worner (historical) | 2.9 miles | 7 | |
| Oakville | 3.8 miles | 7 | |
| Cottondale | 4.2 miles | 7 | |
| Yeomans | 4.7 miles | 7 | |
| Belmont (historical) | 5.9 miles | 7 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 6.0 miles | 7 |
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 Parrott | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2502982 | 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 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.




