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.
Population over time
2 figuresPulaski 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 266 | |
| 2020 | 211 | -55 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1920 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
444 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 297 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 47 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-CANDLER-004 |
| 19 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020BULLOCH006 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Flash Flood | Pulaski | $30,000 | Candler 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $2,000 | The public reported several trees down near Pulaski, Georgia. |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | $500 | Candler County 911 Center reported a tree down on Lake Church Road. |
| August 2024 | Flood | Pulaski | - | A Candler County emergency manager reported an assistance needed due to water entering a home along Salem Church Road near Lotts Creek Road. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | - | 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | - | Candler County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Rosemary Church Road and Lawrence Road. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | - | Candler County dispatch reported a tree down on Highway 46 eastbound near Pulaski. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | - | The Candler County 911 Call Center reported a tree down along Porter Highway near the intersection with Hendricks Road. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Pulaski | - | Law Enforcement relayed a report of quarter size hail 2 miles north-northwest of Pulaski, Georgia. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski | - | Trees down and sheds overturned. |
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 Pulaski | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2205801 | 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 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.








