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Riddleville, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Davisboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31035. The Survey maps it on the Riddleville quadrangle. 80 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Riddleville within Washington County

Population over time

3 figures

Riddleville fell from 124 to 80 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
2000124
201096-28 (-23%)
202080-16 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

265 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Riddleville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,425 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 26 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 burning139
Natural32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use20
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019WASHINGTON005
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2003Debris and open burning10 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-WASHINGTON-024

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riddleville in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 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)Riddleville$250,000This tornado began along News Bridge Road destroying a building before moving over more rural sections and snapping hundreds of trees consisting of both softwoods and |hardwoods. The tornado was remarkably consistent in its track, producing EF1 damage between 95 and 100 mph nearly the entire path. Dozens of homes were damaged with a few destroyed from trees falling on them. The tornado near HJ lane pick up two |vehicles including a truck and displaced them 100 yards. Shortly before the tornado lifted, it crossed into Jefferson county where additional tree damage occurred. [04/13/20: Tornado #21, County #1/2, EF-1, Washington, 2020:027].
July 2018Thunderstorm WindRiddleville$5,000The Washington County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down from around the intersection of Old Savannah Road and Highway 242 near Riddleville to around the intersection of Highway 272 and Tennille Oconee Road near Oconee.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRiddleville$1,000Washington EMC reported trees down on power lines in Riddleville, Sandersville, and Tennille.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindRiddleville$500The Washington County 911 Center reported two trees were blown down along Georgia Highway 231 in Riddleville.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindRiddleville$500no account filed
August 2019Flash FloodRiddleville-Law enforcement rescued stranded motorists on Wilson Road after heavy rains produced flash flooding. Radar estimates indicate that 2 to 3 inches of rainfall occurred over the area, overwhelming a small creek. The creek rose quickly out of its banks and flowed over the roadway.
May 2011HailRiddleville-The Washington County 911 Center and the public observed quarter-sized hail in the far southeast part of the county, just south and southeast of Riddleville near the Johnson county line.
June 2010HailRiddleville-The Washington County fire chief reported nickel-sized hail from the far southeast part of the county.
July 2002HailRiddleville-The Washington county 911 center reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Sun Hill4.6 miles8
Heidrich4.9 miles8
Rose5.3 miles8
Peacocks Crossing5.4 miles8
Davisboro5.8 miles7
Tanner6.2 miles8
Harrison6.4 miles7
Pringle7.5 miles7

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 RiddlevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2412764The 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 332852. 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.