Sasser, Georgia
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sasser census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39842. The Survey maps it on the Sasser quadrangle. 287 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 318 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresSasser fell from 393 to 287 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 393 | |
| 2010 | 279 | -114 (-29%) |
| 2020 | 287 | +8 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Sasser quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Sasser quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
130 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Sasser between 1992 and 2020, burning about 651 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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 | 85 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-TERRELL-001 |
| 29 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-TERRELL-005 |
| 22 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020LEE004 |
| 22 September 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 4.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1995 | Smoking | 5.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sasser in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sasser | $50,000 | Several downed trees on vehicles and homes. Reported by local media. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sasser | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down in the Sasser area. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sasser | $2,000 | A few power outages occurred due to wind near Sasser. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sasser | $1,000 | Strong winds blew down large tree limbs which damaged a metal fence on Gander Lane. Damage was estimated. |
| January 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sasser | - | Trees blew down in the Sasser area. |
| February 2024 | Flash Flood | Sasser | - | Photos from the EM showed much of Dawson Street flooded more than a foot deep in Sasser. The flooding extended from near Cranberry Drive to Hicks Road. In addition, numerous drainage culverts were full or overflowing throughout the county south of Highway 82. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sasser | - | A tree was blown down onto Florida Short Route Road. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sasser | - | Trees and power lines were blown down on Wadsworth Dr. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sasser | - | A tree was blown down near Sasser. |
| August 2015 | Flash Flood | Sasser | - | Water was flowing out of a field across Highway 82 near mile marker 7 due to 3 to 5 inches of rain falling in around 3 hours. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sasser | - | Trees were down near Callis and Sasser Herod Roads. |
| March 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Sasser | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chickasawhatchee | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Bridges Crossroad | 3.2 miles | 7 | |
| Herod | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Dawson | 6.4 miles | 7 | |
| Bronwood | 7.7 miles | 7 | |
| Clarks Mill | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Belmont (historical) | 9.1 miles | 7 | |
| Doverel | 9.4 miles | 7 |
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 Sasser | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3261901 | 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 332984. 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.





