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Statham, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Statham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30666. The Survey maps it on the Statham quadrangle. 2,813 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Statham within Barrow County

On record in Statham

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

Statham grew from 2,408 to 2,813 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
20102,408
20202,813+405 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Statham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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 burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking3
Natural3
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
8 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BARROW-004
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-JACKSON-005
28 September 2016Debris and open burning3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BARROW-003
12 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Recreation and ceremony6.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1998Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barrow County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Statham in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindStatham1 hurt, $200,000The Barrow County Emergency Manager reported that nine trees were blown down, and two of them on houses. One of the trees on a house was on Nunnally Road, and the other on Soloman Drive. A resident on Nunnally Road had minor injuries, and the Red Cross was called for the Soloman Drive residence.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindStatham$20,000Report of structural damage and trees down on the 1100 block of Baxter Court, south-southwest of Statham. Time estimated from radar.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindStatham$10,000The Barrow County News reported that thunderstorm winds brought down a few large trees, one causing minor damage to a home and another bringing down a fence. A couple of power lines were also brought down by the fallen trees, leaving about 630 people without power for several hours during the evening.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindStatham$2,500The public reported trees down all around Statham. One fell on a mobile home.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindStatham$2,000Trees down around Glenn Jackson Road and Bogart Jefferson Road east of Statham.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindStatham$1,000The public reported tree limbs blown down and damage to a trampoline and a wooden playset.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindStatham$1,000The public reported a tree blown down across a driveway on Providence Circle.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindStatham$500Thunderstorm winds blew several trees down.
March 2017HailStatham-Quarter size hail was reported on a farm along Finch Road.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindStatham-Trees down around Statham, near the intersection of Hammond Road and Rat Kinney Road. Time estimated from radar.
August 2009HailStatham-The public observed quarter-sized hail in the Statham area.
January 2007HailStatham-The public reported nickel-sized hail. Several tree limbs were also blown down in the area.
March 2003Flash FloodStatham-National Weather Service automated river gages indicated that because of excessive rainfall on the order of 3 to 5 inches in 6-hours or less, the Middle Oconee River on the Jackson/Barrow county line rose from 5 feet or less to flood stage of 16 feet in less than six hours. The river then continued to rise and crested at 19.7 feet around 7 pm in the evening. Moderate flooding begins at 18 feet and major flooding occurs at 22 feet.. Residents in the area reported that the river was higher than they had seen in years.
April 1997HailStatham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barrow 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
Russell5.6 miles17
Bethlehem6.6 miles17
Winder6.8 miles17
Barrow Heights8.0 miles17
Mulberry8.4 miles15
Cedar Hill9.8 miles15
Whistleville10.1 miles18
Carl11.7 miles15

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 StathamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2494037The 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 323543. 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.