Tarrytown, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Tarrytown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30470. The Survey maps it on the Soperton South quadrangle. 66 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 305 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTarrytown fell from 87 to 66 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 | 87 | |
| 2020 | 66 | -21 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Soperton South quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Vidalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
681 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 681 fires within 5 miles of Tarrytown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,311 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 53 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 | 406 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 69 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 53 |
| Smoking | 46 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 29 |
| Natural | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020MONTGOMERY005 |
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020TREUTLEN005 |
| 30 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-TREUTLEN-017 |
| 30 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tarrytown in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tarrytown | 1 hurt, $100,000 | The Montgomery County Emergency Management Director reported that extensive wind damage occurred across the northern part of the county. The most significant damage was observed in the Kibbee area in the far northern part of the county. Here, a trailer was removed from its foundation, the foundation blocks of which poked holes in the trailer's floor. Nearby, a site-built home was damaged on Bear Creek Road, resulting in the injury, possibly in the form of a broken leg, to a female. Near Tarrytown, several aluminum carports were picked up by the strong winds and thrown onto homes. Just south of Tarrytown, a 30 by 25 foot barn was destroyed. Minor roof damage was also reported to a few homes in the area. In Mt Vernon, a portion of a roof was blown of a home and a few trees were down on power lines. Just northeast of Mount Vernon, in Ailey, a storage shed was destroyed. Numerous trees and power lines were down from Tarrytown, to Kibbee, to Higgston. Several roads were blocked between Tarrytown and Kibbee. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tarrytown | $15,000 | Montgomery county 911 reported trees down, tops blown off buildings, power lines down, and some hail of unknown size. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tarrytown | $6,000 | The Montgomery County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down across the northern end of the county. Some locations included around the intersection of Highways 199 and 221 and in the Paradice Circle area. |
| December 2009 | Flood | Tarrytown | $3,000 | The Montgomery County Emergency Management Director reported minor flooding of some roads and property across the county, mostly adjacent to overflowing creeks and streams. A few dirt roads were washed out. Monetary damage was confined to minor debris removal in these areas. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tarrytown | $1,000 | Tree down along warnock pond road just northeast of tarrytown. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tarrytown | $1,000 | The Montgomery County 911 Center reported that four trees were down within the county, while the public reported that an additional tree was down within the county. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tarrytown | - | Multiple trees down in the vicinity of Philips Street and Warnock Pond Road. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Tarrytown | - | The Tarrytown Post Office reported penny-sized hail. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Tarrytown | - | The Post Office of Tarrytown reported yet another round of penny-sized hail. |
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 Tarrytown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2801332 | 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 333191. 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.





