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Tiger, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tiger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30576. It lies near Bee Branch Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Tiger quadrangle. 422 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,962 feet above sea level.

Tiger within Rabun County

Population over time

2 figures

Tiger grew from 408 to 422 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
2010408
2020422+14 (+3%)

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.

Fires near this place

185 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Tiger between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,374 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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 burning110
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism24
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural5
Other causes5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1998Natural16 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestGLASSY
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestSAWMILL
24 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-RABUN-001
17 September 2000Other causes1.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestMOUNTAIN GROVE
15 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestRHONDA
5 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestGASTON
2 August 2012Naturalunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestSAGA MTN
11 August 2008Other causesunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestLEAD TREE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rabun 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 Tiger: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Bowers PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
J.G. WelbornGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Screamer Mt.GoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Rabun County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tiger in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2026Thunderstorm WindTiger-Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines and causing an outage along Joe Davis Rd.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindTiger-Public reported (via Social Media) trees blown down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTiger-County comms reported multiple trees blown down off the Tiger (441) Connector.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindTiger-Multiple trees were blown down in the Tiger area.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTiger-Numerous trees were blown down along highway 76 between Clayton and Tiger.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindTiger-Several trees blown down on Bridgecreek Rd in the Tiger area.
April 2005HailTiger-Hail in Tiger and Clayton. Hail covered the ground in Clayton.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindTiger-A few trees were blown down.
June 2002HailTiger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rabun 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
Laurel Falls2.1 miles19
Clayton2.7 miles24
Burton Junction (historical)3.0 miles19
Wiley3.4 miles19
Burton (historical)3.6 miles18
Germany3.8 miles24
Lakemont4.6 miles19
Blalock5.3 miles23

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 TigerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2049015The 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 333232. 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.