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Shiloh, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Shiloh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31826. It stands on Gin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shiloh quadrangle. 402 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Shiloh within Harris County

On record in Shiloh

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

2 figures

Shiloh fell from 445 to 402 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
2010445
2020402-43 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

2 photographs, 2017

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.

The abandoned old U.S. Post Office (left) and other city buildings in Shiloh, Georgia
The abandoned old U.S. Post Office (left) and other city buildings in Shiloh, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
An old building that once served as some sort of clubhouse in Shiloh, Georgia
An old building that once served as some sort of clubhouse in Shiloh, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Shiloh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 837 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 28 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 burning142
Arson/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-HARRIS-001
8 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-005
6 September 2009Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HARRIS004
26 September 1996Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1995Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shiloh in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
June 2008LightningShiloh$250,000The Harris County Journal reported that lightning struck a large single-story wood frame home at the corner of Second Street and First Avenue. The house was completely destroyed from the resulting fire.
October 2014Tornado (EF1)Shiloh$5,000NWS Storm Survey team found a tornado touched down just southwest of Shiloh in Harris County and traveled northeast for almost 6 miles across northwest Talbot County and southern Meriwether County. A home on the south face of Pine Mountain off Skyline Drive southwest of Manchester lost part of its roof and a large shed was destroyed. A few other homes along the path had minor damage with approximately 100 trees snapped or uprooted. EF1 damage was indicated with maximum wind speeds estimated around 100 MPH and a path width of 200 yards. [10/14/14: Tornado #1, County #1-3, EF1, Harris-Talbot-Meriwether, 2014:011].
July 2024Thunderstorm WindShiloh$1,000Tree downed just north of Oak Mountain Rd .
June 2017Thunderstorm WindShiloh$1,000The Harris County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down along Highway 190 in the F.D. Roosevelt State Park.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Oak Mountain4.9 miles16
Pine Mountain Valley6.8 miles10
Mountainbrook8.8 miles10
Waverly Hall9.0 miles16
Tip Top9.2 miles10
Pine Mountain9.2 miles10
Turntime Crossroads9.6 miles15
Champion Crossroad9.7 miles10

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 ShilohAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2129145The 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 333034. 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.