Satilla, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hazlehurst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31539. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hazlehurst South quadrangle. 487 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSatilla grew from 421 to 487 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 | 421 | |
| 2020 | 487 | +66 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Hazlehurst South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
511 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 511 fires within 5 miles of Satilla between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,354 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 55 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 | 313 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 55 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 |
| Natural | 26 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 26 |
| Smoking | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 7.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2016 | Smoking | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-APPLING-031 |
| 30 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-JEFF DAVIS-021 |
| 30 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quinn (historical) | 0.9 miles | 8 | |
| Roper | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Maysie (historical) | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Hazlehurst | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Goldsmith (historical) | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Brooker | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Denton | 8.0 miles | 8 | |
| Tallahassee | 9.1 miles | 8 |
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 Satilla | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6122021 | 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 332985. 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.




