Richland, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Richland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31825. The Survey maps it on the Richland quadrangle. 1,370 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Richland within Stewart County

On record in Richland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Richland fell from 1,473 to 1,370 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	1,473
2020	1,370	-103 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Richland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Richland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 756 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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	132
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Arson/incendiarism	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	8
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021STEWART004
30 September 2019	Natural	7.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020STEWART003
26 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-STEWART-007
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stewart County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richland in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Richland	$400,000	A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia concluded that an EF1 tornado touched down just southwest of Richland in northeast Stewart county, traveled across the downtown area of Richland and lifted approximately one mile northeast of Richland. The tornado traveled a path of approximately 1.5 miles with a maximum path width of 250 yards. Around 50 homes and businesses sustained damage in the city of Richland. One commercial building at the intersection of Broad and Harris streets was destroyed when the exterior brick wall collapsed. The Harmony Baptist Church on Harmony and Ponder Streets, built in 1838, was also destroyed. Only two walls were left standing. A tractor-trailer at the intersection of U.S. Highway 280 and Georgia Highway 520 was lifted and dropped by the tornado causing the trailer to collapse and split in the center. In addition, a number of trees and power lines were down throughout the Richland area.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	$6,000	The Stewart County Emergency Manager reported trees and power poles blown down along Highway 520 in Richland.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	$5,000	The Stewart County 911 center reported several trees blown down in the Richland area.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	$5,000	The Lumpkin County 911 Center reported that many trees and several power lines were down between Lumpkin and Richland and also along Georgia Highways 38C and 39 in the western and southwestern part of the county between Florence Marina State Park and Lumpkin. Several power outages were observed in the area as well.
December 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	$3,000	The Stewart county emergency manager reported that power lines were down and there was debris on one of the roads which passes through the Hannahatchee Creek Wildlife Management Area (WMA). It was initially believed to have been a tornado, but there was no confirmation of this by the National Weather Service, local, or state emergency management personnel.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	$1,000	The Stewart County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down at the intersection of Lamar Street and Meyer Street.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Richland	-	Emergency manager reported powerlines down in Richland, near Nicholson St and Richland Bypass.
June 2006	Hail	Richland	-	The public reported penny-sized hail.
May 1998	Hail	Richland	-	Dime size hail was reported in Richland by the sheriff's office.

Every storm recorded in Stewart 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Randall	3.1 miles	8
Brooklyn	6.3 miles	7
Shady Grove	6.9 miles	7
Slaughter Creek (historical)	7.2 miles	7
Westville	7.2 miles	12
Lumpkin	7.4 miles	12
Mount Zion (historical)	8.9 miles	7
Charles	9.0 miles	12

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 Richland	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1912978	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 356496. 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.