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Sunset Village, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sunset Village census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30286. It lies near Brooks Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Sunset Village quadrangle. 921 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Sunset Village within Upson County

Population over time

3 figures

Sunset Village grew from 871 to 921 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
2000871
2010846-25 (-3%)
2020921+75 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

418 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 418 fires within 5 miles of Sunset Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,687 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 50 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 burning267
Arson/incendiarism50
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Equipment and vehicle use24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking2

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
9 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-UPSON-003
8 September 2002Debris and open burning4.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-UPSON-012
5 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020UPSON003
4 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sunset Village: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
D C Eller Bee ProspectMicaProspect
Grace ProspectMicaProspect
J J Reeves ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Upson 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
Glencliff1.3 miles12
Pickard1.7 miles12
Barker Spring2.4 miles12
Hickman Forks2.7 miles12
Roland2.7 miles12
Ellerbeetown2.9 miles12
Crest3.2 miles12
Silvertown3.2 miles12

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 Sunset VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2216245The 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 323779. 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.