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Phillipsburg, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Tifton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31794. The Survey maps it on the Tifton West quadrangle. 640 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 315 feet above sea level.

Phillipsburg within Tift County

On record in Phillipsburg

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Phillipsburg fell from 887 to 640 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
2000887
2010707-180 (-20%)
2020640-67 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

715 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 715 fires within 5 miles of Phillipsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 902 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 155 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 burning385
Arson/incendiarism155
Equipment and vehicle use49
Smoking37
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Natural10
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Recreation and ceremony8

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
9 September 2015Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-TIFT-003
9 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1997Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tift County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phillipsburg in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindPhillipsburg$3,000Trees were blown down near the intersection of I-75 and Union Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindPhillipsburg-A tree was blown down along Highway 319S and Mitchell Store Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPhillipsburg-A tree was blown down at the intersection of Highway 319 and Kelly Road.
April 2021Flash FloodPhillipsburg-Water was reported over the road at Union Road and Jordan Road.
December 2018FloodPhillipsburg-Flooding impacted some garages in the Tifton area.
May 2023HailPhillipsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tift 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
Unionville0.6 miles9
Tifton0.9 miles9
Ferry Lake3.1 miles9
Kelltown3.2 miles9
Pebblebrook3.6 miles9
Linder3.8 miles9
Vanceville4.2 miles9
Iniss (historical)4.4 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 PhillipsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2361281The 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 332653. 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.