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Sunnyside, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Waycross census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31501. It stands on Caney Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waycross East quadrangle. 1,472 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Sunnyside within Ware County

Population over time

3 figures

Sunnyside grew from 1,385 to 1,472 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
20001,385
20101,303-82 (-6%)
20201,472+169 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

726 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 726 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,118 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 88 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 burning430
Arson/incendiarism88
Railroad operations and maintenance65
Misuse of fire by a minor39
Equipment and vehicle use32
Natural29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony15
Smoking9

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
6 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PIERCE-015
27 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1997Debris and open burning4.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ware County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sunnyside: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mcneal PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Minchew Mine No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Minchew Sand Co MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pafford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pafford Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerAlluvium

Every working recorded in Ware 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
Hebardville1.4 miles7
Waycross1.9 miles7
Winona Park2.5 miles8
Deenwood2.6 miles8
Garlington Heights Housing Project2.8 miles8
Jamestown3.1 miles8
Emerson Park4.6 miles8
Waltertown5.2 miles8

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 SunnysideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2578741The 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 1867246. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.