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Reed Creek, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Reed Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30643. It stands on Reed Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reed Creek quadrangle. 2,724 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Reed Creek within Hart County

Population over time

3 figures

Reed Creek grew from 2,148 to 2,724 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
20002,148
20102,604+456 (+21%)
20202,724+120 (+5%)

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

119 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Reed Creek between 1994 and 2019, burning about 706 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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 burning67
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Other causes1

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 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HART001
6 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2001Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-HART-002
19 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HART-002
16 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HART-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Reed Creek: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
Cole DepositMicaOccurrence
Sula Mccurley DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reed Creek in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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
September 2004Tornado (F1)Reed Creek$5,000This brief tornado blew down numerous trees and power lines near Reed Creek. One tree fell on a house.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindReed Creek$400Thunderstorm winds blew a few trees down.
April 2025HailReed Creek-Public reported (via Social Media) reported at least quarter size hail in the Reed Creek area.
May 2025HailReed Creek-Public reported quarter size hail along Harbor Point.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindReed Creek-A power pole was blown down on Reed Creek School Rd. At least one tree was also blown down in the same area.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindReed Creek-Another round of severe thunderstorms downed multiple trees from the Reed Creek area, across Hartwell and to areas southeast of town.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindReed Creek-Multiple trees were blown down across the eastern part of the county.
November 2010Thunderstorm WindReed Creek-Several trees were blown down in the Reed Creek community.
August 2008Tornado (EF1)Reed Creek-This tornado touched down near Oak Crest Dr in the Reed Creek community in extreme northeast Hart County, then skipped across Lake Hartwell before tracking into extreme western Anderson County in South Carolina. The intermittent damage path was mainly limited to downed trees and power lines, although some minor structural damage was noted near Reed Creek.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindReed Creek-Three or 4 trees blown down on power lines in the Reed Creek area.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindReed Creek-Quite a few trees and power lines blown down.
April 2005HailReed Creek-Hail covered the ground.
June 2009HailReed Creek-no account filed
April 1999HailReed Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Maretts3.6 miles14
Mount Olivet4.5 miles14
Oak Bower (historical)5.3 miles15
Shoal Creek5.8 miles15
Parkertown6.1 miles15
Parkertown Mill6.3 miles15
Hartwell6.4 miles13
Cross Roads6.4 miles15

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 Reed CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2253203The 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 332819. 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.