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Raoul, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Cornelia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30510. The Survey maps it on the Baldwin quadrangle. 2,803 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,421 feet above sea level.

Raoul within Habersham County

Population over time

3 figures

Raoul grew from 1,816 to 2,803 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
20001,816
20102,558+742 (+41%)
20202,803+245 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Raoul between 1992 and 2020, burning about 402 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 35 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 burning130
Arson/incendiarism35
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
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
9 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BANKS-001
7 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burning2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestJUNKYARD
26 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BANKS-002
15 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BANKS-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Habersham 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 Raoul: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Crow (L.W. Bowen) MineGoldProspectPlacer, Some Vein Prospecting Also
Crow Heirs MineGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
J. Loudermilk (J. Perkins)GoldProspectPlacer, Some Vein Prospecting Also

Every working recorded in Habersham County

Storms near this place

8 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raoul in 8 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2020Tornado (EF1)Raoul$20,000NWS storm survey found that a tornado moved into Habersham County from Hall County along Herring Mill Rd and moved east/northeast across extreme southern Habersham County, passing just north of Alto before moving into the Baldwin area. Damage was largely confined to numerous snapped and uprooted trees, although a metal roof was damaged on the southwest side of Baldwin. The tornado moved into Banks County just south of Gainesville Highway.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRaoul$5,000Public reported several trees blown down in Alto and vicinity, including multiple trees blown down across Highway 23. Additionally, a tree was blown down on a vehicle and several transformers were blown in Cornelia and vicinity.
August 2021Flash FloodRaoul$2,000Emergency manager reported flash flooding developed along a few smaller creeks in central and southern Habersham County after 3 to 5 inches of rain fell in around 24 hours, with much of that falling in just a few hours during the morning and early afternoon of the 17th. These included GLade Creek, which flooded W Glade Creek Rd and E Glade Creek Rd northeast of Clarkesville. Little Mud Creek also flooded Alonzo Wade Rd in Alto.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindRaoul-County comms reported a tree blown down in the town of Alto and another tree down in Demorest.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRaoul-County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down in the Alto area.
April 2017HailRaoul-Public reported 3/4 inch hail in the southwest corner of Habersham County.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindRaoul-County comms reported multiple trees blown down on Payne Norton Rd.
August 2013Flash FloodRaoul-Numerous roads were closed due to flooding in the Cornelia, Baldwin, Alto and Mt Airy communities. Streams reportedly threatened homes, though there were no reports of significant damage.

Every storm recorded in Habersham 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
Longview2.0 miles14
Hughesboro (historical)3.1 miles14
Wilbanks Corner3.4 miles14
Baldwin4.2 miles14
Cornelia5.6 miles18
Mount Airy6.9 miles18
Stottsville7.9 miles18
Demorest8.4 miles18

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 RaoulAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3315910The 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 351437. 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.