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Poulan, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Poulan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31781. The Survey maps it on the Sylvester quadrangle. 760 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Poulan within Worth County

On record in Poulan

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Poulan fell from 946 to 760 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
2000946
2010851-95 (-10%)
2020760-91 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Poulan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 921 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 43 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 burning148
Arson/incendiarism43
Equipment and vehicle use26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WORTH-010
3 September 1999Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WORTH008
26 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WORTH-004
21 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WORTH-003
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WORTH-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poulan in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPoulan$20,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPoulan$10,000The 911 Call Center received a report of either a tree or large branch down on a house in Poulan. Damage was estimated.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindPoulan$10,000Thunderstorm downburst winds toppled an estimated 80 acres of pine trees. Some power poles were also down. Report relayed by NWSFO Peachtree City from an Albany radio station.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindPoulan$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down with scattered power outages. Reported by Worth County 911.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindPoulan$5,000Two utility poles and a transformer were damaged on Seabrook Drive.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindPoulan$3,000A power line was blown down on Highway 256 just east of Cotton Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPoulan$2,000A couple of trees and power lines were blown down on Railroad Street.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPoulan$2,000A tree was blown down resuling in a power outage along Ousley Street NW.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Poulan$2,000Tornado sighted by Poulan fire squad toppled numerous trees off SR 256.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindPoulan$500no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindPoulan-Three trees were blocking Hwy 256.
September 2024Flash FloodPoulan-Whiddon Mill Road was flooded.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPoulan-A tree was blown down on Poulan Shingler Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPoulan-A tree was blown down blocking Sands Dr.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPoulan-Trees were blocking the road at Highway 256 and Seabrook Drive.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPoulan-A tree was blown down onto McGirt Street in Poulan.
January 2017HailPoulan-Ping pong ball size hail was reported in Poulan.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPoulan-A tree was blown down near Warrior Creek.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPoulan-A tree was blown down onto Highway 256 south of Poulan.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindPoulan-A few trees were down on Darlington Road.

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Sumner2.6 miles8
Sylvester2.8 miles9
Shingler4.5 miles9
Tempy4.7 miles10
Gammage5.1 miles10
Isabella5.2 miles9
Gordy5.4 miles10
San Barnard (historical)5.5 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 PoulanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1987749The 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 321100. 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.