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.
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
Sumner High Schoollisted 1996
Population over time
3 figuresSumner 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 309 | |
| 2010 | 427 | +118 (+38%) |
| 2020 | 445 | +18 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Sumner quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1977Taken 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.
Marshall, Howard W, 1977. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
221 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 148 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020WORTH003 |
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020WORTH008 |
| 26 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-WORTH-004 |
| 20 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-WORTH-004 |
| 19 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2016-WORTH-003 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2007 | Tornado (EF2) | Sumner | $500,000 | An 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $250,000 | A 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 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Sumner | $100,000 | A 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $100,000 | Trees, power lines and road signs were blown down. Some homes sustained minor roof damage along U.S. Highway 82. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $25,000 | A few roofs were blown off homes and trees were down on Ty Ty Sycamore Road. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $5,000 | Numerous power outages occurred due to severe storms with downed and sagging power lines. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $5,000 | Several trees and power lines down reported by the Colquitt County 911 dispatch. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $3,000 | An 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $3,000 | Trees were blown down with hail of unknown size and power outages reported. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $2,000 | Several power outages occurred as gusty winds from thunderstorms moved through the area. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $2,000 | A power line was down along Little River Road. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $2,000 | A tree was blown down east of Sylvester with power outages reported. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $1,000 | A tree and power line were blown down in Sumner. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $1,000 | A power line was blown down east of Sumner. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | $1,000 | The awning on a store was blown off in Sumner. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Sumner | - | Hansel Road between Pine Forest Road and Gibbs Road was closed. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | Several trees were blown down along Highway 82 one mile west of Ty Ty. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | A tree was blown down onto Little River Road. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | A tree was blown down near Whiddon Mill Road. |
| October 1997 | Hail | Sumner | - | Dime size hail along Georgia Highway 82 west of Ty Ty near Sumner. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Sumner | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Sumner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2349682 | 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 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.




