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Sardis, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sardis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30456. The Survey maps it on the Sardis quadrangle. 995 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Sardis within Burke County

On record in Sardis

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Sardis fell from 999 to 995 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
2010999
2020995-4 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Sardis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,376 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 67 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 burning117
Arson/incendiarism67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural7
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-BURKE-002
4 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021BURKE007
30 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-BURKE-005
15 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-BURKE-020
9 August 1992Debris and open burning5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2014Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-JENKINS-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sardis in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
September 2015Thunderstorm WindOld Sardis$8,000Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down on Hwy 23 near Sardis.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSardis$8,000Dispatch reported powerlines down in Sardis.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSardis$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees in Sardis.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindSardis$5,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSardis$4,000Georgia Power reported powerlines down along Hwy 24 and Tom Bargeron Road near Sardis.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindOld Sardis$4,000Georgia Power reported powerlines down in the town of Sardis.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindSardis$4,000Sheriff reported several trees down on Giles Street and Hwy 23 in Sardis.
August 2023FloodOld Sardis$500Burke County Law Enforcement reported several flooded roadways throughout the county.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindSardis$500Dispatch reported a tree down in the Sardis area.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSardis$500A few large trees were downed in Sardis along Georgia Highway 24 by thunderstorm winds.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSardis-Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down blocking both lanes at the intersection of Johnson Road and Ellison Bridge Road near Sardis.
August 2024Flash FloodSardis-Burke County EM reported multiple flooded roadways in the Town of Sardis including North Mill Street, Cemetery Street, and along Old Sardis Road.
August 2024Flash FloodOld Sardis-Burke County EM reported Highway 23 at Black Road is flooded.
August 2024Flash FloodOld Sardis-Burke County Sheriff's Office reported Mill Pond Road near Murray Hill Road is closed due to flooding.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOld Sardis-Numerous trees were downed in Sardis. Time estimated.
May 2014HailSardis-Sardis Police Dept. reported quarter size hail.
June 2014HailOld Sardis-EMA employee reported quarter size hail and a tree down in his yard off of Old Sardis Road on the south side of Sardis.
June 2011HailSardis-Public reported quarter size hail along with tree limbs down.
May 2009HailOld Sardis-Sardis FD reported pea size hail in Sardis and penny size hail SSW of Sardis between Hwys 23 and 24.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindOld Sardis-Sheriff Dispatch reported a large tree down along Old Sardis Rd.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSardis-Reported power lines down in Sardis along Highway 24.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindSardis-Storm survey found a linear track with trees down in the rural areas from west of Sardis to just east of Girard.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSardis-Highway Dept. reported several trees down on Brown Morely road and Thompson Creek road.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSardis-Channel 12 out of Augusta reported that the roof of a church was blown off.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSardis-Public reported a couple of trees down.
December 2005Tornado (F0)Sardis-An F0 tornado touched down intermittently along a path from near the intersection of Creek and Claxton roads to a Cypress Pond road NE of Girard. Only trees were taken down. This was the second tornado produced by the same supercell that spawned another tornado north to northeast of Midville.
May 2002HailSardis-Emergency manager reported quarter size hail just south of Sardis.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSardis-EPD reported large limbs and powerlines down in the Sardis area.

Every storm recorded in Burke 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
Old Sardis0.9 miles15
Murray Hill2.4 miles17
Bill Davis (historical)3.2 miles15
Girard5.1 miles17
Alexander7.1 miles16
Hills Store8.8 miles16
Telfair Woods8.9 miles16
Asbury (historical)9.5 miles16

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 SardisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673558The 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 322525. 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.