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.
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
Possum Pokelisted 1982
Poulan Librarylisted 2003
Population over time
3 figuresPoulan 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 946 | |
| 2010 | 851 | -95 (-10%) |
| 2020 | 760 | -91 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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
- 1956 USGS Sylvester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Sylvester quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
245 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 148 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-WORTH-010 |
| 3 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020WORTH008 |
| 26 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-WORTH-004 |
| 21 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-WORTH-003 |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-WORTH-004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | $20,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | $10,000 | The 911 Call Center received a report of either a tree or large branch down on a house in Poulan. Damage was estimated. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | $10,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines down with scattered power outages. Reported by Worth County 911. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | $5,000 | Two utility poles and a transformer were damaged on Seabrook Drive. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | $3,000 | A power line was blown down on Highway 256 just east of Cotton Road. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | $2,000 | A couple of trees and power lines were blown down on Railroad Street. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | $2,000 | A tree was blown down resuling in a power outage along Ousley Street NW. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Poulan | $2,000 | Tornado sighted by Poulan fire squad toppled numerous trees off SR 256. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | $500 | no account filed |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | - | Three trees were blocking Hwy 256. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Poulan | - | Whiddon Mill Road was flooded. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | - | A tree was blown down on Poulan Shingler Road. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | - | A tree was blown down blocking Sands Dr. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | - | Trees were blocking the road at Highway 256 and Seabrook Drive. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | - | A tree was blown down onto McGirt Street in Poulan. |
| January 2017 | Hail | Poulan | - | Ping pong ball size hail was reported in Poulan. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | - | A tree was blown down near Warrior Creek. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | - | A tree was blown down onto Highway 256 south of Poulan. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poulan | - | A few trees were down on Darlington Road. |
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.
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 Poulan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1987749 | 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 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.





