Siloam, Georgia
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Siloam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30642. The Survey maps it on the Union Point quadrangle. 194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 702 feet above sea level.
On record in Siloam
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 4 records
Siloam Historic Districtlisted 2001- Brown-Bryson Farmlisted 1999
- Moore-Crutchfield Placelisted 1990
- Siloam Junior High Schoollisted 2002
Population over time
3 figuresSiloam fell from 331 to 194 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 | 331 | |
| 2010 | 282 | -49 (-15%) |
| 2020 | 194 | -88 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Union Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
3 photographs, 1941Taken 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.
Delano, Jack, 1941. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1941. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1941. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
244 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Siloam between 1992 and 2019, burning about 602 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 23 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 | 107 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Smoking | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Natural | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-GREENE-005 |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-GREENE-007 |
| 19 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Siloam: 1 plant, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greene County Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Siloam Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Siloam Washing Plant & Pit | Feldspar | Plant |
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Siloam in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2011 | Lightning | Siloam | $25,000 | The Greene County 911 Center reported that a structure on Fuller Road was struck by lightning and set on fire. No further specific details were provided. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Siloam | $4,000 | The Greene County 911 center reported trees blown down along a line from around the intersection of Bethany Road and Old Bethany Road near Siloam, to around the intersection of Village Main Street and Founders Row in Reynolds Plantation. |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Siloam | $3,000 | The Rayle Electric Membership Cooperative reported that several trees were down on power lines along Georgia Highway 77. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Siloam | - | The Greene County 911 Center relayed reports of quarter-sized hail in the far southeastern part of the county between Siloam and White Plains. |
| March 2010 | Hail | Siloam | - | The public observed quarter-sized hail in the Siloam area. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Siloam | - | The Union Point Post Office reported quarter size hail and the public reported quarter size hail in Siloam. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veazey | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Mosquito Crossing | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| White Plains | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Union Point | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Flat Rock (historical) | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Greensboro | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Swaggy Valley | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Ruth (historical) | 6.7 miles | 11 |
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 Siloam | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2530290 | 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 356535. 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.






