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Sharon, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sharon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30631. The Survey maps it on the Sharon quadrangle. 104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Sharon within Taliaferro County

On record in Sharon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Sharon fell from 105 to 104 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
2000105
2010140+35 (+33%)
2020104-36 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

Photographs

5 photographs, 1939

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Road to Sharon, Sharon vic., Taliaferro County, Georgia
Road to Sharon, Sharon vic., Taliaferro County, Georgia
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress
Cabin, Sharon vic., Taliaferro County, Georgia
Cabin, Sharon vic., Taliaferro County, Georgia
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress
Road to Sharon, Sharon vic., Taliaferro County, Georgia
Road to Sharon, Sharon vic., Taliaferro County, Georgia
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress
Road to Sharon, Sharon vic., Taliaferro County, Georgia
Road to Sharon, Sharon vic., Taliaferro County, Georgia
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress
Road to Sharon, Sharon vic., Taliaferro County, Georgia
Road to Sharon, Sharon vic., Taliaferro County, Georgia
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Sharon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 741 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 4 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 burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

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
8 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WARREN-013
5 September 1999Natural277 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-TALIAFERRO-003
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-WARREN-004
23 September 2001Smoking1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-TALIAFERRO-003
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-TALIAFERRO-001
9 August 2002Debris and open burning2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TALIAFERRO-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taliaferro County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sharon: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
HillmanGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Taliaferro County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharon in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSharon$5,000Multiple trees downed in the town of Sharon with widespread power outages.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSharon$2,000The Taliaferro County 911 center reported trees blown down near a trailer park on Highway 47 at Stephan Road in Sharon.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSharon$2,000The Taliaferro County 911 center reported trees blown down along Highway 47 between Crawfordville and Washington.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSharon$1,000Tree down across I20 near the Warren County Line.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSharon$1,000The Taliaferro County 911 center reported a tree blown down on I-20 eastbound near mile marker 152.5.
February 2005HailSharon-The public reported penny-sized hail. A few small branches were also blown down.
February 2005HailSharon-The public reported penny-sized hail.
May 2002HailSharon-The Sharon Post Office observed golf ball size hail.

Every storm recorded in Taliaferro 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
Raytown2.3 miles13
Hillman2.8 miles13
Crawfordville5.4 miles14
Edgewood Crossroads5.7 miles14
Lyneville8.9 miles13
Springfield9.4 miles13
Robinson10.6 miles14
Carters Grove12.1 miles13

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 SharonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2349279The 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 322779. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.