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Perkins, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Millen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30822. The Survey maps it on the Perkins quadrangle. 93 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 239 feet above sea level.

Perkins within Jenkins County

On record in Perkins

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

2 figures

Perkins grew from 91 to 93 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
201091
202093+2 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Perkins between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,030 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 44 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 burning101
Arson/incendiarism44
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
29 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1996Arson/incendiarism2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019BURKE009
18 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019JENKINS002
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-JENKINS-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jenkins County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perkins in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 21 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPerkins$10,000An employee at Magnolia Springs State Park reported multiple trees down, including one that landed on a car. The employee also reported dime size hail.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPerkins$5,000Trees and powerlines down on Fred Chance Road.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindPerkins$5,000Several large trees were blown down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindPerkins$2,000There were trees reported down throughout the Magnolia Springs State Park.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPerkins$2,000Trees down at the Magnolia Country Club.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPerkins$1,000The police reported 1 tree down on Highway 23.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPerkins$1,000Tree down along Perkins Green Fork Rd. Tree down along the Jenkins/Burke county line.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPerkins$750Numerous tree limbs were reported down in Magnolia Springs State Park.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindPerkins$500The public reported large tree limbs down due to thunderstorm winds in Magnolia Springs State Park.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPerkins$500A tree was reported down on Habersham Church Road.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindPerkins$500Large limbs fell at the Magnolia Springs State Park.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPerkins$250A few small tree limbs were reported down along with dime size hail.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindPerkins-A fire fighter reported several trees down on a property in Perkins, GA.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindPerkins-A video received on Twitter showed several medium size trees down along Georgia Highway 23 approximately 5 miles southwest of Sardis, GA.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPerkins-A tree was reported down on U.S. Highway 25 North.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPerkins-The Jenkins County 911 Call Center reported 4 trees down near Perkins, GA.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPerkins-Law enforcement reported numerous trees down throughout the community of Perkins.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPerkins-The Jenkins County Fire and Rescue reported trees and power lines down on Perkins-Greenfork Road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPerkins-Many trees were uprooted in Magnolia Springs State Park. Two trees fell on a residence. Trees were 30 to 40 feet tall.
May 2009HailPerkins-The public reported quarter size hail along State Highway 23, five miles west-southwest of Sardis, Georgia.
May 2007HailPerkins-Hail fell at Magnolia Springs State Park.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindPerkins-Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees along Highway 23.
September 2004Tornado (F0)Perkins-A weak tornado knocked down trees and large limbs.
September 2000Tornado (F0)Perkins-Several trees and numerous limbs down.
May 1998HailPerkins-no account filed
April 1998Thunderstorm WindPerkins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jenkins 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
Lawton2.6 miles15
Habersham (historical)4.0 miles15
Birdsville7.1 miles7
Millen7.3 miles15
Cushingville (historical)7.6 miles7
South Millen (historical)8.0 miles15
Bennetts Landing8.8 miles7
Rogers8.9 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 PerkinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7169023The 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 332641. 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.