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Ranger, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Redbud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30734. The Survey maps it on the Oakman quadrangle. 107 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Ranger within Gordon County

On record in Ranger

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

Ranger fell from 131 to 107 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
2010131
2020107-24 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Moss-Kelly House, Lick Creek Road near Redbud Creek, Ranger, Gordon County, GA
Moss-Kelly House, Lick Creek Road near Redbud Creek, Ranger, Gordon County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Ranger between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,216 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 99 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
Arson/incendiarism99
Debris and open burning98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking5

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 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning7.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GORDON-002
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning22 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestCHICKEN CREEK
25 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019PICKENS001
2 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-GORDON-014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ranger: 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
P M Tate MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
H.M. Shellhorse PropertyIronOccurrence
L.P. Byrd PropertyIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gordon County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ranger in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
March 1998Thunderstorm WindRanger3 hurt, $600,000Straight-line thunderstorm winds from a downburst flattened 4 brand new chicken houses on East Damascus Road. About a mile north a mobile home was ripped from its foundation and destroyed. The 4 mile long damage path began just north of highway 53 and moved north-northeastward to near the Pickens county line. Numerous trees were downed along the path. Winds were estimated at 60 to 100 mph.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRanger$7,000The Gordon County 911 center reported multiple trees blown down along Highway 411 from Ranger to Fairmount.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRanger$5,000The Gordon County Emergency Management Director reported that some trees were down on Pleasant Hill Road and Taylor Town Road in the northeast part of the county, along with some power lines down on Red Bone Ridge Road and Covington Bridge Road.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRanger$1,000The Gordon county 911 center reported that some trees were blown down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRanger$1,000Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRanger$250The Gordon county 911 center reported that one tree was blown down on Covington Bridge Road. Pea size hail was reported in Calhoun.
May 2011HailRanger-The Gordon County 911 Center reported quarter-sized hail in the east central part of the county northeast of Sonoraville near Ranger.
June 2008HailRanger-The Gordon County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail northwest of Ranger.

Every storm recorded in Gordon 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
Igo (historical)1.3 miles19
Bobo2.5 miles19
Colima2.9 miles19
Ryo3.8 miles19
Fambro (historical)4.2 miles19
Oakman4.5 miles19
Fairmount4.5 miles19
Wheeler (historical)5.1 miles19

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 RangerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q666467The 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 332791. 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.