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.
Population over time
3 figuresRiddleville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 124 | |
| 2010 | 96 | -28 (-23%) |
| 2020 | 80 | -16 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Riddleville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
265 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 139 |
| Natural | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019WASHINGTON005 |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-WASHINGTON-024 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Riddleville | $250,000 | This 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riddleville | $5,000 | The 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riddleville | $1,000 | Washington EMC reported trees down on power lines in Riddleville, Sandersville, and Tennille. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riddleville | $500 | The Washington County 911 Center reported two trees were blown down along Georgia Highway 231 in Riddleville. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riddleville | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Riddleville | - | 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 2011 | Hail | Riddleville | - | 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 2010 | Hail | Riddleville | - | The Washington County fire chief reported nickel-sized hail from the far southeast part of the county. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Riddleville | - | The Washington county 911 center reported dime size hail. |
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.
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 Riddleville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2412764 | 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 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.





