Pinehurst, Georgia
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Unadilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31070. The Survey maps it on the Pinehurst quadrangle. 309 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 413 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPinehurst fell from 455 to 309 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 455 | |
| 2020 | 309 | -146 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Pinehurst quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
118 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Pinehurst between 1992 and 2020, burning about 362 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 | 76 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-DOOLY-003 |
| 24 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 6.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-DOOLY-006 |
| 19 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-DOOLY-004 |
| 4 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-DOOLY-001 |
| 7 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-DOOLY-003 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinehurst in 13 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2018 | Hail | Pinehurst | $40,000 | The public reported golf ball size hail around Pinehurst. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinehurst | $30,000 | The public reported a thunderstorm downburst that resulted in minor damage to two recreational vehicles, a portion of a roof being blown off a building, five uprooted large pecan trees, and one downed power line. Winds were estimated to be at least 75 mph. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinehurst | $12,000 | The Dooly County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down from Byromville and Vienna to Drayton. In Vienna, a fire station was damaged when a roll-up door at the station was blown inward and the other doors on the building were blown outward. No injuries were reported. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinehurst | $10,000 | The Dooly County Emergency Management Director reported that 11 large pecan trees were down between Pinehurst and Vienna parallelling U.S. Highway 41 and Georgia Highway 70. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinehurst | $4,000 | The Dooly County Emergency Manager reported a couple of trees down across road in Pinehurst. No evidence of severe winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinehurst | $2,000 | The Dooly County Emergency Manager reported that several power lines were blown down at the intersection of Cypress Avenue and Fullington Avenue in Pinehurst. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinehurst | $1,000 | Tree reported down near the intersection of Bowen Rd and Calhoun Rd. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinehurst | $500 | The Dooly county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down. |
| March 2026 | Tornado (EF0) | Pinehurst | - | An EF0 tornado briefly spun up east of Pinehurst GA near Everett Road in Dooly|County. The tornado hit a small house along Rocky Ford Road blowing sections of metal roof off and into trees downwind of the house. The tornado also flipped a center pivot in a field nearby. The tornado lifted as it crossed Pinehurst Hawkinsville Rd and 3rd District Road. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinehurst | - | Roof peeled off structure near intersection of Langford Rd and Everett Rd. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Pinehurst | - | The Dooly County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Pinehurst | - | The Dooly county 911 center reported dime size hail. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Pinehurst | - | The Dooly county 911 center reported dime size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Findlay | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Snow Spring | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Unadilla | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Emerich | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| Mars Hill Crossroads | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Lilly | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Vienna | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| Byromville | 7.7 miles | 8 |
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 Pinehurst | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q927443 | 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 320662. 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.






