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.
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.
- Tifton Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1994 · 1.0 miles away
Population over time
3 figuresPhillipsburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 887 | |
| 2010 | 707 | -180 (-20%) |
| 2020 | 640 | -67 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Tifton West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
715 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 385 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 155 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 49 |
| Smoking | 37 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2016-TIFT-003 |
| 9 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2012Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phillipsburg | $3,000 | Trees were blown down near the intersection of I-75 and Union Road. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phillipsburg | - | A tree was blown down along Highway 319S and Mitchell Store Road. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phillipsburg | - | A tree was blown down at the intersection of Highway 319 and Kelly Road. |
| April 2021 | Flash Flood | Phillipsburg | - | Water was reported over the road at Union Road and Jordan Road. |
| December 2018 | Flood | Phillipsburg | - | Flooding impacted some garages in the Tifton area. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Phillipsburg | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unionville | 0.6 miles | 9 | |
| Tifton | 0.9 miles | 9 | |
| Ferry Lake | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Kelltown | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Pebblebrook | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Linder | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Vanceville | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Iniss (historical) | 4.4 miles | 9 |
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 Phillipsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2361281 | 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 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.




