BlockRoopville, Georgia
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Roopville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30170. The Survey maps it on the Roopville quadrangle. 231 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,247 feet above sea level.
On record in Roopville
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 1 record
Veal Schoollisted 2005
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Alexander-Almon House, 130 Philip Almon Road, Roopvillefederal building survey, 12 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresRoopville grew from 218 to 231 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 | 218 | |
| 2020 | 231 | +13 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
- 1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Roopville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
178 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Roopville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 818 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 27 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 | 97 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 6.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CARROLL-013 |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-HEARD-006 |
| 17 September 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-CARROLL-007 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Roopville: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonner Mine | Gold | Past Producer | Vein |
Storms near this place
18 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roopville in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2005 | Tornado (F2) | Roopville | 1 killed, $4,400,000 | A National Weather Service Damage Survey Team, in conjunction with the Carroll County Emergency Manager and Chief of Fire and Rescue operations, concluded that the F2 tornado, which began just south of Glenloch in Heard county, continued north into Carroll county. The tornado entered Carroll county approximately three miles southeast of Roopville and continued north at 30-35 mph to a point about three miles northeast of Roopville. The overall path length within Carroll county was 4.0 miles with an approximate path width of 200 yards. Extensive damage occurred along the path of the tornado. A total of 17 large chicken houses were destroyed along with 1,000,000 chickens. This resulted in agricultural damages alone in Carroll county of $3,000,000. A 40-year old man was killed while stepping outside his house to check on the status of his poultry and one of his chicken houses. Other livestock, including cattle and horses were also killed along the tornado path. Several homes and vehicles were also damaged or destroyed. One Chevrolet pickup truck was flipped over by the tornado onto a pile of bricks and wooden panels. Damage to homes and residential property from the tornado was estimated at $1,435,800. Overall damage in Carroll county from the tornado and subsequent thunderstorm wind was estimated at $5,235,800. All together 30 homes in the county suffered moderate damage, with another 100 homes sustaining minor damage. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roopville | $800,000 | The Carroll County Emergency Management Director, the Carroll County Fire and Rescue Chief, and the National Weather Service Damage Survey Team determined that while the F2 tornado ended approximately three miles northeast of Roopville, damage continued northward from this location to a point approximately three miles southwest of Carrollton. Several more homes, vehicles, and residential property were damaged in this area. Residential damages from this non-tornadic portion of this storm were estimated at $800,000. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roopville | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down and damaged house roofs. |
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roopville | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn and tore off the roof of a home in Roopville. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roopville | $4,000 | The Carroll County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down across the roadway at the intersection of Highway 27 and Highway 5. |
| February 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roopville | $1,000 | Power lines were downed on thomas wilson road. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roopville | $1,000 | Tree downed along glenloch road near lepard road. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roopville | $1,000 | Tree downed along gum creek road near the county line. |
| December 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roopville | $1,000 | EM reports Tree down across roadway at the intersection of Glenloch Rd and GA Hwy 27. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roopville | $1,000 | Tree and powerlines downed along Milligan Creek Rd. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roopville | $1,000 | The Carroll County 911 Center reported that four trees were down in the southern part of the county. One tree was down on Oak Grove Road and another was down on Oak Grove Church Road. |
| June 2001 | Lightning | Roopville | $500 | The Roopville Fire Department reported that lightning struck a house and knocked some of the bricks off the chimney. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Roopville | - | The Carroll County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail across the far southern portion of the county along the Heard and Coweta county lines. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Roopville | - | The public reported dime size hail. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Roopville | - | A report from a spotter and one from Carroll county 911 indicated dime size hail in the south part of Carroll county. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Roopville | - | A spotter reported dime to quarter size hail near the Carroll/Heard county line. |
| April 1993 | Hail | Roopville | - | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn and tore off the roof of a home in Roopville. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Roopville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mabry (historical) | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Star Point | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Stoney Point | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Tyus | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Lowell | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Oak Grove | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Veal | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Victory | 5.7 miles | 15 |
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 Roopville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2291010 | 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 321890. 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.