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.
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
- Locust Grove Cemeterylisted 2006
Population over time
3 figuresSharon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 105 | |
| 2010 | 140 | +35 (+33%) |
| 2020 | 104 | -36 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1906 USGS Crawfordville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Sharon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
5 photographs, 1939Taken 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.
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
131 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 63 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-WARREN-013 |
| 5 September 1999 | Natural | 277 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-TALIAFERRO-003 |
| 3 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-WARREN-004 |
| 23 September 2001 | Smoking | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-TALIAFERRO-003 |
| 19 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-TALIAFERRO-001 |
| 9 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-TALIAFERRO-001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillman | Gold | Past Producer | Stream Placer |
Storms near this place
8 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $5,000 | Multiple trees downed in the town of Sharon with widespread power outages. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $2,000 | The Taliaferro County 911 center reported trees blown down near a trailer park on Highway 47 at Stephan Road in Sharon. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $2,000 | The Taliaferro County 911 center reported trees blown down along Highway 47 between Crawfordville and Washington. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $1,000 | Tree down across I20 near the Warren County Line. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $1,000 | The Taliaferro County 911 center reported a tree blown down on I-20 eastbound near mile marker 152.5. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Sharon | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. A few small branches were also blown down. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Sharon | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Sharon | - | The Sharon Post Office observed golf ball size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raytown | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Hillman | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Crawfordville | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Edgewood Crossroads | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Lyneville | 8.9 miles | 13 | |
| Springfield | 9.4 miles | 13 | |
| Robinson | 10.6 miles | 14 | |
| Carters Grove | 12.1 miles | 13 |
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 Sharon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2349279 | 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 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.







