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Pavo, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 31778. The Survey maps it on the Pavo quadrangle. 622 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 256 feet above sea level.

Pavo within Brooks County

Population over time

2 figures

Pavo fell from 627 to 622 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
2010627
2020622-5 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Pavo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,212 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 29 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 burning159
Arson/incendiarism29
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
30 September 1993Debris and open burning9.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BROOKS-002
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BROOKS-003
3 September 1999Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning9.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BROOKS-003
22 September 2010Debris and open burning4.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BROOKS-010
22 September 1997Debris and open burning9.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brooks County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pavo in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2017Tornado (EF1)Pavo$20,000This is a continuation of the Thomas county tornado. Damage in Brooks county was limited to EF1 intensity. The tornado mainly damaged trees and the roof of one residence before dissipating. Damage cost was estimated.
March 2001Tornado (F0)Pavo$5,000The F0 tornado moved northeast from northeast Thomas County along Highway 122, crossed the Thomas-Brooks County line near Pavo, then dissipated just northeast of Pavo in extreme northwest Brooks County. It uprooted several trees and downed some power lines. Reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindPavo$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down near Pavo. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPavo$2,000A tree was blown down onto power lines on Adams Road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPavo-A tree was down along Shelly Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPavo-A tree was blown down at the intersection of Barwick and Pallock Roads.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindPavo-A tree was blown across a road near Pavo with a picture posted on social media.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPavo-A tree was blown near 1190 Ione Church Road.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindPavo-A dogwood tree was blown down in Pavo.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPavo-A tree was blown down on Highway 33.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPavo-Trees were blown down near Pavo.
May 2010HailPavo-Quarter sized hail was estimated from the public and relayed via WCTV.
October 2002HailPavo-A SKYWARN spotter reported quarter size hail.
March 2000Funnel CloudPavo-Reported by a storm spotter.
February 1998HailPavo-Numerous public reports of quarter size hail.

Every storm recorded in Brooks 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
Hollis2.6 miles8
Shelly2.7 miles8
Ione3.6 miles9
Sand Hill4.9 miles8
Tallokas (historical)6.9 miles8
Oaklawn7.6 miles8
Pebble Hill9.0 miles8
New Rock Hill9.1 miles9

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 PavoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2196620The 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 356459. 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.