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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.

Sasser within Terrell County

Population over time

3 figures

Sasser 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.

YearPeople Change
2000393
2010279-114 (-29%)
2020287+8 (+3%)

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

130 since 1992

Regional 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 burning85
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony2

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 1999Debris and open burning4.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burning18 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-TERRELL-001
29 September 2001Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-TERRELL-005
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LEE004
22 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minor4.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1995Smoking5.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Terrell County

Storms near this place

12 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSasser$50,000Several downed trees on vehicles and homes. Reported by local media.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSasser$2,000Power lines were blown down in the Sasser area.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindSasser$2,000A few power outages occurred due to wind near Sasser.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSasser$1,000Strong winds blew down large tree limbs which damaged a metal fence on Gander Lane. Damage was estimated.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindSasser-Trees blew down in the Sasser area.
February 2024Flash FloodSasser-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 2023Thunderstorm WindSasser-A tree was blown down onto Florida Short Route Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSasser-Trees and power lines were blown down on Wadsworth Dr.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSasser-A tree was blown down near Sasser.
August 2015Flash FloodSasser-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 2009Thunderstorm WindSasser-Trees were down near Callis and Sasser Herod Roads.
March 2019Funnel CloudSasser-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Terrell 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
Chickasawhatchee1.9 miles10
Bridges Crossroad3.2 miles7
Herod5.2 miles9
Dawson6.4 miles7
Bronwood7.7 miles7
Clarks Mill8.2 miles9
Belmont (historical)9.1 miles7
Doverel9.4 miles7

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 SasserAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3261901The 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.