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Royston, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It lies in ZIP code area 30662. The Survey maps it on the Royston quadrangle. 2,649 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Royston within Hart County

Population over time

2 figures

Royston grew from 2,582 to 2,649 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,582
20202,649+67 (+3%)

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

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Royston between 1992 and 2019, burning about 350 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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 burning107
Equipment and vehicle use35
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking9
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HART-007
28 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN006
26 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HART-006
18 September 2005Debris and open burning5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Royston: 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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
Bromer Ayers DepositMicaOccurrence
Brown Mine (Kings Mount Gold Mine)GoldPast ProducerVein
Hays PropertyGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Horse Head MineMicaPast Producer
Mccrary ProspectMicaProspect
Winter PropertyGoldProspectPlacer

Every working 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
Goldmine3.4 miles14
Vanna3.8 miles14
Canon4.1 miles14
Reeds4.5 miles14
Eagle Grove5.5 miles14
Bowersville6.1 miles14
Flat Shoals8.0 miles13
Cross Roads8.5 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 RoystonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346098The 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 321981. 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.