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.
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
McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church and Cemeterylisted 2001
Sapp Plantationlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresSardis 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 999 | |
| 2020 | 995 | -4 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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.
- 1920 USGS Millen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Sardis quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
218 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 117 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 67 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2014-BURKE-002 |
| 4 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2021BURKE007 |
| 30 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-BURKE-005 |
| 15 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-BURKE-020 |
| 9 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-JENKINS-001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Old Sardis | $8,000 | Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down on Hwy 23 near Sardis. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | $8,000 | Dispatch reported powerlines down in Sardis. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees in Sardis. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | $4,000 | Georgia Power reported powerlines down along Hwy 24 and Tom Bargeron Road near Sardis. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Old Sardis | $4,000 | Georgia Power reported powerlines down in the town of Sardis. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | $4,000 | Sheriff reported several trees down on Giles Street and Hwy 23 in Sardis. |
| August 2023 | Flood | Old Sardis | $500 | Burke County Law Enforcement reported several flooded roadways throughout the county. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | $500 | Dispatch reported a tree down in the Sardis area. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | $500 | A few large trees were downed in Sardis along Georgia Highway 24 by thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | - | Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down blocking both lanes at the intersection of Johnson Road and Ellison Bridge Road near Sardis. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Sardis | - | Burke County EM reported multiple flooded roadways in the Town of Sardis including North Mill Street, Cemetery Street, and along Old Sardis Road. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Old Sardis | - | Burke County EM reported Highway 23 at Black Road is flooded. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Old Sardis | - | Burke County Sheriff's Office reported Mill Pond Road near Murray Hill Road is closed due to flooding. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Old Sardis | - | Numerous trees were downed in Sardis. Time estimated. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Sardis | - | Sardis Police Dept. reported quarter size hail. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Old 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 2011 | Hail | Sardis | - | Public reported quarter size hail along with tree limbs down. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Old Sardis | - | Sardis FD reported pea size hail in Sardis and penny size hail SSW of Sardis between Hwys 23 and 24. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Old Sardis | - | Sheriff Dispatch reported a large tree down along Old Sardis Rd. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | - | Reported power lines down in Sardis along Highway 24. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | - | Storm survey found a linear track with trees down in the rural areas from west of Sardis to just east of Girard. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | - | Highway Dept. reported several trees down on Brown Morely road and Thompson Creek road. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | - | Channel 12 out of Augusta reported that the roof of a church was blown off. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | - | Public reported a couple of trees down. |
| December 2005 | Tornado (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 2002 | Hail | Sardis | - | Emergency manager reported quarter size hail just south of Sardis. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis | - | EPD reported large limbs and powerlines down in the Sardis area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Sardis | 0.9 miles | 15 | |
| Murray Hill | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Bill Davis (historical) | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Girard | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| Alexander | 7.1 miles | 16 | |
| Hills Store | 8.8 miles | 16 | |
| Telfair Woods | 8.9 miles | 16 | |
| Asbury (historical) | 9.5 miles | 16 |
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 Sardis | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673558 | 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 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.









