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Sumner, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Poulan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31789. The Survey maps it on the Sumner quadrangle. 445 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 377 feet above sea level.

Sumner within Worth County

On record in Sumner

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

3 figures

Sumner grew from 309 to 445 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
2000309
2010427+118 (+38%)
2020445+18 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1977

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Sumner United Methodist Church, Bright Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, Thompson Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Friendship Baptist Church, Emanuel Baptist Church, Worth County, Georgia; Primitive Baptist Church of Christ (Old Ty Ty Church), Ty Ty, Georgia
Sumner United Methodist Church, Bright Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, Thompson Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Friendship Baptist Church, Emanuel Baptist Church, Worth County, Georgia; Primitive Baptist Church of Christ (Old Ty Ty Church), Ty Ty, Georgia
Marshall, Howard W, 1977. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

221 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Sumner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 750 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 30 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 burning148
Arson/incendiarism30
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2

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
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WORTH003
26 September 2019Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WORTH008
26 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WORTH-004
20 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WORTH-004
19 September 2015Debris and open burning15 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-WORTH-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sumner in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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
March 2007Tornado (EF2)Sumner$500,000An EF-2 tornado touched down on Sumner Lakes Road just south of Sumner. One mobile home was completely destroyed, with the debris blown several hundred yards away. The four occupants inside received warning of the approaching tornado and promptly vacated the home for a reinforced shelter. Of the two dozen structures that were damaged, half were heavily damaged. Numerous utility poles and trees in the path of the tornado were snapped.
February 2000Thunderstorm WindSumner$250,000A mobile home was destroyed and four homes damaged. Numerous downed trees and power lines. A recreational vehicle overturned. Reported by the Worth County Sheriff.
April 2020Tornado (EF1)Sumner$100,000A brief tornado touched down just southwest of Highway 82, west of Ty Ty, GA where there was minor structural damage as well as widespread trees being uprooted and snapped. The tornado moved northeast and crossed Highway 82 where a member of the public reported seeing it. It then continued northeast with damage reported on Little River Road and Whiddon Mill Road which was consistent with radar signatures. Thank you to Worth County GA Emergency Management officials in their help in collecting damage points and pictures.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindSumner$100,000Trees, power lines and road signs were blown down. Some homes sustained minor roof damage along U.S. Highway 82.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindSumner$25,000A few roofs were blown off homes and trees were down on Ty Ty Sycamore Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSumner$5,000Numerous power outages occurred due to severe storms with downed and sagging power lines.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSumner$5,000Several trees and power lines down reported by the Colquitt County 911 dispatch.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSumner$3,000An irrigation system was blown into the roadway on Whiddon Mill Road at Willis Road and there were multiple trees blown down just east of Willis Road.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindSumner$3,000Trees were blown down with hail of unknown size and power outages reported. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSumner$2,000Several power outages occurred as gusty winds from thunderstorms moved through the area.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSumner$2,000A power line was down along Little River Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSumner$2,000A tree was blown down east of Sylvester with power outages reported.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSumner$1,000A tree and power line were blown down in Sumner.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSumner$1,000A power line was blown down east of Sumner.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindSumner$1,000The awning on a store was blown off in Sumner. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
April 2024Flash FloodSumner-Hansel Road between Pine Forest Road and Gibbs Road was closed.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSumner-Several trees were blown down along Highway 82 one mile west of Ty Ty.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSumner-A tree was blown down onto Little River Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSumner-A tree was blown down near Whiddon Mill Road.
October 1997HailSumner-Dime size hail along Georgia Highway 82 west of Ty Ty near Sumner.
March 2024HailSumner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Poulan2.6 miles9
Pine Hill4.9 miles8
Shingler5.1 miles9
Sylvester5.3 miles9
Tempy6.1 miles10
Isabella7.2 miles9
Terrell7.3 miles8
San Barnard (historical)7.5 miles9

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 SumnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2349682The 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 356569. 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.