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.
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
Tallulah Falls Schoollisted 1992
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Tallulah Falls Bridge, Spanning Tallulah Falls River on U.S. Highway 23/State Route 15, Tallulah Fallsfederal building survey, 51 photographs
- Tallulah Falls Dam, Spanning Tallulah Falls River on U.S. Highway 23/State Route 15, Tallulah Fallsfederal building survey, 22 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresTallulah 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 168 | |
| 2020 | 199 | +31 (+18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 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.
- 1886 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1896 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Tallulah Falls quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
111 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 56 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | COMMUNITY LANE |
| 23 September 1999 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | Y CAMP |
| 10 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-HABERSHAM-001 |
| 24 July 2008 | Natural | 92 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | KING |
| 24 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-HABERSHAM-001 |
| 2 July 1996 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | FALLS |
| 19 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.4 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | CAR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henckel Mine | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Marble Prospect | Marble, Dimension | Prospect | ||
| Panther Creek Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | Pyrrhotite |
Storms near this place
15 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tallulah Falls | - | Public reported numerous trees blown down in Tallulah Falls. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tallulah Falls | - | Multiple trees were blown down in the Tallulah Falls area, with one tree on a house. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tallulah Falls | - | Report of 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Tallulah Falls | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Tallulah Falls | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tallulah Falls | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Tallulah Falls | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Tallulah Falls | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Tallulah Falls | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Tallulah Falls | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tallulah Falls | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Tallulah Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tallulah Falls | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Tallulah Falls | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Tallulah Falls | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tallulah Park (historical) | 1.1 miles | 19 | |
| Shirley Grove | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Tugaloo | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Turnerville | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Hollywood | 6.3 miles | 19 | |
| Midway | 8.0 miles | 18 | |
| Anandale (historical) | 8.1 miles | 19 | |
| Dixon Crossroads | 9.1 miles | 19 |
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 Falls | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2515925 | 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 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.






