Saint Marys, Georgia
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the St. Marys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31558. It stands on North River. The Survey maps it on the Saint Marys quadrangle. 18,256 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
On record in Saint Marys
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Orange Halllisted 1973 · 0.4 miles away
Surveyed buildings and structures 8 records
- Dungeness, Cumberland Island, Saint Marysfederal building survey, 6 photographs
- First African Baptist Church, North Cut Road on Half Moon Bluff, on north end of Cumberland Island, Saint Marysfederal building survey, 4 photographs
- General Nathaneal Greene Cottage, Cumberland Island, Saint Marysfederal building survey, 4 photographs
- Orange Hall, Saint Marysfederal building survey, 13 photographs
- Plum Orchard, Saint Marysfederal building survey, 10 photographs
- Santa Maria Mission (Ruins), Saint Marysfederal building survey, 6 photographs
- Stafford Plantation, Playhouse, Saint Marysfederal building survey, 10 photographs
- Stafford Plantation, Saint Marysfederal building survey, 1 photograph
Population over time
2 figuresSaint Marys grew from 17,121 to 18,256 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 | 17,121 | |
| 2020 | 18,256 | +1,135 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 23 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.
- 1918 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1919 USGS St. Marys quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS St. Marys quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS St. Marys quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS St. Marys quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
8 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
194 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Saint Marys between 1992 and 2020, burning about 416 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 60 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 60 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 36 |
| Natural | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CAMDEN-042 |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CAMDEN-043 |
| 29 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-CAMDEN-009 |
| 9 August 1992 | Natural | 10.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Cumberland Island National Seashore | WELL HOUSE |
| 31 August 2011 | Natural | 37 acres | Florida Forest Service | ROAD 19 (45) |
| 31 August 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lands End | 1.5 miles | 23 | |
| North River Marshes | 1.7 miles | 18 | |
| Cypress Lake Estates | 1.8 miles | 23 | |
| Riverview | 1.9 miles | 23 | |
| Plantation Oaks | 2.0 miles | 18 | |
| Quail Hollow | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Peter Point Oaks | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| River Oaks | 2.2 miles | 18 |
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 Saint Marys | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q921619 | 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 356510. 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.














