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Stapleton, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Stapleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30823. The Survey maps it on the Wrens quadrangle. 402 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Stapleton within Jefferson County

Population over time

3 figures

Stapleton grew from 318 to 402 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
2000318
2010438+120 (+38%)
2020402-36 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

332 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of Stapleton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 886 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 18 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 burning191
Natural31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism18
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking13
Recreation and ceremony3

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 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GLASCOCK-003
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2020Debris and open burning10 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021GLASCOCK002
29 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2011Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JEFFERSON-028
2 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021JEFFERSON005
13 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JEFFERSON-021

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Stapleton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin. 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
Reedy Creek Div PlantKaolinProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stapleton in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2011: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
March 2008HailStapleton$300,000The public observed tennis ball-sized hail across northern Jefferson county, especially in the Wrens area. The Huddle House restaurant on Main Street in Wrens suffered considerable damage from the large hail as a number of windows were broken.
April 2009Tornado (EF1)Stapleton$100,000A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the EF1 tornado that initially touched down in extreme eastern Glascock county continued into far northern Jefferson county along a five mile-long path before lifting approximately three miles northeast of Stapleton. The tornado was determined to have a maximum path width of 200 yards with maximum winds estimated at 110 mph. The majority of the damage associated with this tornado occurred in Jefferson county. Significant damage was observed to the Heartsgrove Baptist Church at the intersection of Georgia Highways 80 and 296, just across from the Glascock county line. Part of the roof, brick siding, and the chimney were removed from the structure. Several granite headstones in the adjacent cemetery were tipped over. Many trees were down along the path of the tornado, especially along a 3/4 mile-long path east of the damaged church.
November 2011Thunderstorm WindStapleton$7,000The Jefferson County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees and power lines were down in the far northern part of the county, generally between Stapleton and Wrens.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindStapleton$2,000The Jefferson County 911 Center reported that at least six trees were down across the northern portion of the county, mainly near Wrens. The damage was caused by a thunderstorm outflow boundary as an area of thunderstorms moved into the county from the north.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindStapleton$2,000The Jefferson County 911 Center reported that a few trees and power lines were down in the Stapleton area in the far northern part of the county.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindStapleton$1,000The Jefferson county 911 center reported that some trees were down from Jefferson to Wrens.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Avera3.5 miles9
Wrens Station3.9 miles16
Wrens4.1 miles16
Omaha Springs5.1 miles9
Brinson Crossing5.8 miles16
Zebina7.0 miles16
Stellaville7.5 miles16
Stapletons Crossroads8.1 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 StapletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3260715The 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 356555. 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.