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Tallulah Falls, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Turnerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30523. It lies near Apple Pie Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Tallulah Falls quadrangle. 199 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,719 feet above sea level.

Tallulah Falls within Habersham County

On record in Tallulah Falls

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Tallulah Falls grew from 168 to 199 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
2010168
2020199+31 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

2 photographs,

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.

Tallulah Falls Bridge, Spanning Tallulah Falls River on U.S. Highway 23/State Route 15, Tallulah Falls, Habersham County, GA
Tallulah Falls Bridge, Spanning Tallulah Falls River on U.S. Highway 23/State Route 15, Tallulah Falls, Habersham County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Tallulah Falls Dam, Spanning Tallulah Falls River on U.S. Highway 23/State Route 15, Tallulah Falls, Habersham County, GA
Tallulah Falls Dam, Spanning Tallulah Falls River on U.S. Highway 23/State Route 15, Tallulah Falls, Habersham County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Tallulah Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 768 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 14 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 burning56
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1

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
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestCOMMUNITY LANE
23 September 1999Natural3.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestY CAMP
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HABERSHAM-001
24 July 2008Natural92 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestKING
24 July 2001Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-HABERSHAM-001
2 July 1996Natural4.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestFALLS
19 July 2006Arson/incendiarism3.4 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestCAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Habersham 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 Tallulah Falls: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Marble, Dimension. 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
Henckel MineGoldPast Producer
Marble ProspectMarble, DimensionProspect
Panther Creek ProspectIronOccurrencePyrrhotite

Every working recorded in Habersham County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tallulah Falls in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindTallulah Falls-Public reported numerous trees blown down in Tallulah Falls.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindTallulah Falls-Multiple trees were blown down in the Tallulah Falls area, with one tree on a house.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindTallulah Falls-Report of 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
April 2003HailTallulah Falls-Hail covered the ground.
August 2007HailTallulah Falls-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindTallulah Falls-no account filed
May 2006HailTallulah Falls-no account filed
April 2003HailTallulah Falls-no account filed
April 2003HailTallulah Falls-no account filed
April 2003HailTallulah Falls-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindTallulah Falls-no account filed
May 1998HailTallulah Falls-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindTallulah Falls-no account filed
July 1997HailTallulah Falls-no account filed
June 1997HailTallulah Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Habersham 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
Tallulah Park (historical)1.1 miles19
Shirley Grove1.5 miles19
Tugaloo2.2 miles20
Turnerville3.5 miles19
Hollywood6.3 miles19
Midway8.0 miles18
Anandale (historical)8.1 miles19
Dixon Crossroads9.1 miles19

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 Tallulah FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2515925The 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 333182. 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.

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.