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Pulaski, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pulaski census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30439. The Survey maps it on the Pulaski quadrangle. 211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Pulaski within Candler County

Population over time

2 figures

Pulaski fell from 266 to 211 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
2010266
2020211-55 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

444 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 444 fires within 5 miles of Pulaski between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,248 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 47 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 burning297
Arson/incendiarism47
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural7
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CANDLER-004
19 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BULLOCH006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Candler County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pulaski in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood, 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
May 2025Flash FloodPulaski$30,000Candler County dispatch reported multiple roads washed out and damaged due to flash flooding. Byrd Jr School Road was washed out between Saint Mathews Church Road and Kirkland Road and both ends of Meridy Road were also washed out.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindPulaski$2,000The public reported several trees down near Pulaski, Georgia.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindPulaski$500Candler County 911 Center reported a tree down on Lake Church Road.
August 2024FloodPulaski-A Candler County emergency manager reported an assistance needed due to water entering a home along Salem Church Road near Lotts Creek Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindPulaski-Candler County Sheriff's Office relayed images of numerous trees with some power poles down along Rosemary Church Road. The damage was consistent with straight line winds.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindPulaski-Candler County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Rosemary Church Road and Lawrence Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindPulaski-Candler County dispatch reported a tree down on Highway 46 eastbound near Pulaski.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPulaski-The Candler County 911 Call Center reported a tree down along Porter Highway near the intersection with Hendricks Road.
March 2011HailPulaski-Law Enforcement relayed a report of quarter size hail 2 miles north-northwest of Pulaski, Georgia.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPulaski-Trees down and sheds overturned.

Every storm recorded in Candler 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
Parish1.7 miles16
Excelsior5.3 miles16
Metter5.5 miles9
Shamrock6.8 miles9
Union8.2 miles9
Canoe10.0 miles9
Olifftown10.4 miles9
Aline11.0 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 PulaskiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2205801The 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 321217. 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.