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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.

Satilla within Jeff Davis County

Population over time

2 figures

Satilla 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.

YearPeople Change
2010421
2020487+66 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

511 since 1992

Regional 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 burning313
Arson/incendiarism55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Natural26
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Smoking19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Recreation and ceremony14
Railroad operations and maintenance5

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
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Debris and open burning19 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning7.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Smoking1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-APPLING-031
30 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-JEFF DAVIS-021
30 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jeff Davis 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
Quinn (historical)0.9 miles8
Roper4.7 miles8
Maysie (historical)5.6 miles8
Hazlehurst5.8 miles8
Goldsmith (historical)5.9 miles8
Brooker6.8 miles8
Denton8.0 miles8
Tallahassee9.1 miles8

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 SatillaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6122021The 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.