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Sale City, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sale City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31784. The Survey maps it on the Sale City quadrangle. 354 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 358 feet above sea level.

Sale City within Mitchell County

Population over time

3 figures

Sale City grew from 319 to 354 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.

YearPeople Change
2000319
2010380+61 (+19%)
2020354-26 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Sale City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 665 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 19 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 burning125
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2

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
3 September 1997Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Debris and open burning4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MITCHELL006
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-COLQUITT-017
12 September 2011Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MITCHELL-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sale City in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Tornado (EF1)Sale City$300,000This tornado was rated EF1 with max winds estimated at 105 mph. The tornado began south of Highway 37 in an open field between Rigsby Lake and Antioch Road, where it snapped and uprooted a few hardwood trees, and also bent a portion of a center-pivot irrigation apparatus. It then moved quickly northeast and crossed Highway 37 into Pebble City, where it destroyed two structures: A tin volunteer fire department building, and a community/voting center, which collapsed onto itself when the supporting cinder blocks gave way. The tornado also snapped numerous softwood trees behind both of these structures. As it raced northeastward towards Sale City Road, the tornado snapped more softwood trees and a few wooden power poles. When it reached Millard Road, the tornado continued to snap trees, with more extensive tree damage being noted along Massey Bog Road. As it moved just east of Highway 93 along Old Doerun Road, the tornado caused a double-wide manufactured home with straps to shift approximately 18 inches off its cinder block foundation, blew out the windows of two single family homes, and uprooted several softwood trees. Before it dissipated at Greenough Road, the tornado uprooted another softwood tree.
March 2005Tornado (F1)Sale City$250,000A tornado touched down on Mount Zion Road and damaged a brick home. Another dozen homes were damaged. As it traveled northeast, it damaged two irrigation pivots, tossed hay bales 200 feet across Highway 93 and uprooted many trees. The tornado then moved across open fields before crossing into Colquitt County. The storm survey was conducted by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindSale City$20,000Thunderstorm winds knocked over numerous trees including two 60-foot Pecan trees. The fallen trees caused roof and structure damage to a home. Thunderstorm winds also blew a satellite dish off of the city's water tower. Power was also out for two and one-half hours.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindSale City$5,000A structure sustained light damage as the metal siding was torn off.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSale City$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down near Sale City.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindSale City$2,000A tree and power line were blown down across the road on Highway 37.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindSale City$1,000A few trees were blown down on Highway 93 near the intersection with Highway 37.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindSale City-Several trees were blown down in the area.
April 2024Flash FloodSale City-The bridge on Cherry Road was closed due to flooding.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindSale City-A tree was blocking Highway 93 near Sale City.
May 2023FloodSale City-The public reported minor flooding via mping.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSale City-A tree blew down in Sale City.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindSale City-A tree was blown down across Highway 93 near Sale City.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSale City-Several trees were blown down near the Sale City Baptist Church.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindSale City-A tree was blown down across Sale City Road.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindSale City-There were 6 reports of trees down in the eastern part of Mitchell county.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSale City-A tree was blown down in the eastern part of Mitchell county close to the border with Colquitt county.
May 2016HailSale City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mitchell 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
Akridge (historical)2.7 miles8
Pebble City3.2 miles8
Laney3.9 miles8
Greenough5.6 miles10
Hinsonton5.9 miles8
Saco (historical)6.4 miles8
Adelaide6.7 miles10
Lester7.4 miles10

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 Sale CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2244970The 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 322327. 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.