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Screven, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Screven census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31560. It stands on Tiger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Screven quadrangle. 769 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Screven within Wayne County

Population over time

3 figures

Screven grew from 702 to 769 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
2000702
2010766+64 (+9%)
2020769+3 (+0%)

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

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Screven between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,201 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 32 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 burning82
Natural33
Arson/incendiarism32
Equipment and vehicle use19
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking3

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
3 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WAYNE-015
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WAYNE-016
17 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Natural3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2007Natural260 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2008Natural60 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2006Natural11 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Screven in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 1995Thunderstorm WindScreven$5,000Large tree limbs and power lines blown down.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindScreven$5,000A large swath of trees was blown down by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Broadhurst5.4 miles15
Sun Hill5.6 miles15
Ritch6.0 miles8
Slover6.2 miles14
McKinnon6.4 miles15
Leake7.2 miles14
O Neal7.3 miles15
K'Ville7.5 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 ScrevenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965207The 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 332994. 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.