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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.

Saint Marys within Camden County

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.

Surveyed buildings and structures 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Saint 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.

YearPeople Change
201017,121
202018,256+1,135 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 23 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.

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.

Santa Maria Mission (Ruins), Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Santa Maria Mission (Ruins), Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Stafford Plantation, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Stafford Plantation, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Stafford Plantation, Playhouse, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Stafford Plantation, Playhouse, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Orange Hall, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Orange Hall, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
General Nathaneal Greene Cottage, Cumberland Island, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
General Nathaneal Greene Cottage, Cumberland Island, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Plum Orchard, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Plum Orchard, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Dungeness, Cumberland Island, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Dungeness, Cumberland Island, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
First African Baptist Church, North Cut Road on Half Moon Bluff, on north end of Cumberland Island, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
First African Baptist Church, North Cut Road on Half Moon Bluff, on north end of Cumberland Island, Saint Marys, Camden County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

194 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism60
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Natural34
Debris and open burning33
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CAMDEN-042
3 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CAMDEN-043
29 September 2016Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CAMDEN-009
9 August 1992Natural10.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2014Naturalunder an acreCumberland Island National SeashoreWELL HOUSE
31 August 2011Natural37 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROAD 19 (45)
31 August 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Lands End1.5 miles23
North River Marshes1.7 miles18
Cypress Lake Estates1.8 miles23
Riverview1.9 miles23
Plantation Oaks2.0 miles18
Quail Hollow2.1 miles18
Peter Point Oaks2.2 miles18
River Oaks2.2 miles18

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 MarysAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q921619The 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.