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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.

Summertown within Emanuel County

Population over time

2 figures

Summertown 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.

YearPeople Change
2010160
2020121-39 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

222 since 1992

Regional 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 burning117
Arson/incendiarism35
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural17
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3

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
4 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020EMANUEL010
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-EMANUEL-017
12 September 2019Arson/incendiarism13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020EMANUEL009
11 September 2010Natural2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-EMANUEL-011
10 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-EMANUEL-004
8 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-EMANUEL-004
31 August 2014Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-EMANUEL-016

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emanuel County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2015Thunderstorm WindSummertown$20,000The 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 2000Thunderstorm WindSummertown$5,000The Emanuel county 911 center reported trees down across the west half of Emanuel county from Summertown, to Swainsboro, to Nunez.
June 2006HailSummertown$500The 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 2022Thunderstorm WindSummertown-A few trees and powerlines reported down near the intersection of Hwy-56 North and Hwy-192 North.
November 2011HailSummertown-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 2000FloodSummertown-The Emanuel county 911 center reported street flooding in the western part of the county.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindSummertown-Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down along Georgia Highway 192 between Summertown and Garfield. Powerlines were also snapped in a path from Summertown to Garfield.

Every storm recorded in Emanuel 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
Stevens Crossing2.2 miles7
Three Points3.1 miles8
Blun3.3 miles8
Colemans Lake5.2 miles7
Blundale6.1 miles7
Modoc6.5 miles8
Old Dellwood7.1 miles8
Canoochee7.2 miles7

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 SummertownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2273551The 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.