Skidaway Island, Georgia
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31411. It stands on Skidaway Island. The Survey maps it on the Isle of Hope quadrangle. 9,310 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSkidaway Island grew from 8,341 to 9,310 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,341 | |
| 2020 | 9,310 | +969 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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.
- 1944 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Isle of Hope quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Isle of Hope quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
59 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Skidaway Island between 1992 and 2017, burning about 439 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 16 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 | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2006 | Natural | 105 acres | Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge | FLORA HAMMOCK FIRE |
| 3 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-CHATHAM-002 |
| 26 July 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 June 1997 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge | F.HAMMOCK |
| 4 June 1996 | Debris and open burning | 4.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 June 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 14 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 June 1993 | Debris and open burning | 8.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
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 Skidaway Island: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savannah Deposit | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | 1966 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marshwood at the Landings | 0.9 miles | 15 | |
| The Landings | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Burnside View | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Rio Vista | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Pin Point | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Vernon View | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Wymberly | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Bethesda | 3.2 miles | 15 |
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 Skidaway Island | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1849112 | 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 1867245. 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.









