Summertown, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Summertown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30441. The Survey maps it on the Summertown quadrangle. 121 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 253 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSummertown fell from 160 to 121 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 | 160 | |
| 2020 | 121 | -39 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Summertown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
222 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Summertown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,622 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 35 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 | 117 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020EMANUEL010 |
| 14 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-EMANUEL-017 |
| 12 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 13 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020EMANUEL009 |
| 11 September 2010 | Natural | 2.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-EMANUEL-011 |
| 10 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-EMANUEL-004 |
| 8 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-EMANUEL-004 |
| 31 August 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-EMANUEL-016 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summertown in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summertown | $20,000 | The Emanuel County Fire Department reported a large pine tree and several smaller trees blown down, a metal dog house flattened and the skirting ripped from under a trailer as well as part of the roof lifted off of a restaurant in the Summertown area. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summertown | $5,000 | The Emanuel county 911 center reported trees down across the west half of Emanuel county from Summertown, to Swainsboro, to Nunez. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Summertown | $500 | The Emanuel County Emergency Management Director reported that a good amount of nickel-sized hail was observed near Modoc. The hail damaged some windows in the area. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summertown | - | A few trees and powerlines reported down near the intersection of Hwy-56 North and Hwy-192 North. |
| November 2011 | Hail | Summertown | - | Amateur radio operators relayed a report of quarter-sized hail from the far northern part of the county, just south of the Jefferson county line. |
| July 2000 | Flood | Summertown | - | The Emanuel county 911 center reported street flooding in the western part of the county. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summertown | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down along Georgia Highway 192 between Summertown and Garfield. Powerlines were also snapped in a path from Summertown to Garfield. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stevens Crossing | 2.2 miles | 7 | |
| Three Points | 3.1 miles | 8 | |
| Blun | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Colemans Lake | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Blundale | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Modoc | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Old Dellwood | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Canoochee | 7.2 miles | 7 |
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 Summertown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2273551 | 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 323743. 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.





