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Port Wentworth, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Port Wentworth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31407. It stands on Front River. The Survey maps it on the Port Wentworth quadrangle. 10,878 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Port Wentworth within Chatham County

On record in Port Wentworth

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Port Wentworth grew from 5,359 to 10,878 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
20105,359
202010,878+5,519 (+103%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Port Wentworth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,933 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 35 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
Railroad operations and maintenance51
Arson/incendiarism35
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Smoking2

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
8 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021CHATHAM001
4 August 1993Naturalunder an acreSavannah RefugesHWY-17
11 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSavannah RefugesCHEVY VAN FIRE
1 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSavannah RefugesKANASKI FIRE
8 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSavannah Refuges170 FIRE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Port Wentworth: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
National Gypsum/ Savannah, Ga.Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Chatham County

Storms near this place

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Wentworth in 34 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 21 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth$4,250Law enforcement reported one tree fell on a garage and a power line was down on Georgia Highway 21.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth$2,000A trained spotter reported power lines blown down near the entrance to the Georgia port. The spotter also observed pea sized hail.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth$2,000Law enforcement reported a power pole down on Osteen Street.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth$1,250The public reported a large tree branch broken over power lines.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth$1,000Law enforcement reported one tree down near Phillip Avenue.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth$750A few large tree limbs were reported to have fallen on a car outside of a residence in Port Wentworth, Georgia.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth$500The public reported a large oak tree down along Old Highway 21 in Port Wentworth, Georgia.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-Chatham County Emergency Management Agency reported a tree down on a house at 415 S Coastal Highway. The tree also brought down a powerline.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-A Chatham County emergency manager reported a tree down near the intersection of Augusta Road and Crossgate Road.
July 2022HailPort Wentworth-The public reported nickel sized hail on Augusta Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-A Chatham County emergency manager reported multiple warehouses damaged, including one with a partial roof collapse near the intersection of Expansion Boulevard and Jimmy Deloach. Trees were also down.
June 2018HailPort Wentworth-A fire department reported nickel size hail on the 500 block of Highway 25.
August 2018HailPort Wentworth-The media relayed a report of penny size hail in Port Wentworth.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-Multiple trees were reported down near the Houlihand bridge, causing the bridge to be closed to traffic.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-Chatham County Emergency Management reported a tree down on a house on Bonnybridge Road in Port Wentworth.
May 2017HailPort Wentworth-Penny sized hail reported in Port Wentworth. Wind gusts of approximately 55 mph were also reported.
May 2017HailPort Wentworth-A report of nickel sized hail in Port Wentworth was received via social media.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-Chatham County Emergency Management reported minor roof damage to the trailer of a business on Grange Road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-The public reported multiple trees and power lines down on Coleraine Drive.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-An emergency manager reported two trees blown down along State Route 21 between Gulfstream Road and Grange Road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-An emergency manager reported multiple trees blown down in the Port Wentworth vicinity.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-An emergency manager reported a tree down on Crossgate Road near Highway 21.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-A Chatham County emergency manager reported trees down on Bonny Bridge Road near Highway 25, Buckhalter Road near Ogeechee Road, Ford Avenue near Grove Point and Jimmy Deloach Parkway near Farm Lake Drive.
May 2012HailPort Wentworth-A report of golf ball size hail on Bonney Road.
May 2012HailPort Wentworth-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail fell for two minutes.
May 2012HailPort Wentworth-The public reported quarter size hail at the intersection of Highway 30 and Highway 21 in Port Wentworth.
July 2009HailPort Wentworth-The public reported penny size hail in Port Wentworth, Georgia.
March 2008HailPort Wentworth-A public report of quarter sized hail was received in Port Wentworth, Georgia.
December 2007Flash FloodPort Wentworth-Bonnie bridge Road was reported to be flooded by the Chatham County Emergency Manager.
May 2006HailPort Wentworth-Hail reported near the intersection of Highway 21 and Plantation Rd.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-Power lines down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-Trees down.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindPort Wentworth-Trees, telephone poles and power lines down
August 2000HailPort Wentworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chatham 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
Port Wentworth Junction1.6 miles16
Garden City2.4 miles15
Monteith2.6 miles16
Mulberry Grove2.8 miles16
Wheat Hill3.0 miles15
Meinhard3.4 miles16
Chatham City3.4 miles15
Starland Park3.8 miles15

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 Port WentworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2436255The 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 332733. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.