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Ty Ty, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ty Ty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31795. The Survey maps it on the Ty Ty quadrangle. 641 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 315 feet above sea level.

Ty Ty within Tift County

Population over time

3 figures

Ty Ty fell from 716 to 641 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
2000716
2010725+9 (+1%)
2020641-84 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

4 photographs, 1977

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.

Dorsey barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia
Dorsey barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia
Adler, Thomas A. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Dorsey's barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia; Dickens log house, Tift County, Georgia
Dorsey's barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia; Dickens log house, Tift County, Georgia
Adler, Thomas A. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Dorsey's barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia; Luther "Lying" Bailey, Sycamore, Georgia
Dorsey's barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia; Luther "Lying" Bailey, Sycamore, Georgia
Fleischhauer, Carl (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Dorsey barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia
Dorsey barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia
Adler, Thomas A. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

311 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 311 fires within 5 miles of Ty Ty between 1992 and 2020, burning about 815 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 52 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 burning200
Arson/incendiarism52
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural3

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
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-TIFT-004
23 September 1996Debris and open burning3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Debris and open burning3.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tift County

Storms near this place

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ty Ty in 11 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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
June 2007LightningTy Ty1 killed, 2 hurtThree men taking shelter under a pecan tree off Ty Ty-Sparkss Road were struck by lightning. Two of the men were injured and one was killed.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindTy Ty$150,000Several roofs were damaged and vehicles were overturned. Trees and power lines were also down, with power outages and traffic lights out.
April 2020Tornado (EF1)Ty Ty$100,000A brief tornado touched down just southwest of Highway 82, west of Ty Ty, GA where there was minor structural damage as well as widespread trees being uprooted and snapped. The tornado moved northeast and crossed Highway 82 where a member of the public reported seeing it. It then continued northeast with damage reported on Little River Road and Whiddon Mill Road which was consistent with radar signatures. Thank you to Worth County GA Emergency Management officials in their help in collecting damage points and pictures.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindTy Ty$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down across Tift county along with minor damage to 4 homes. The home damage was obtained via a Georgia Emergency Management tweet. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindTy Ty$5,000Numerous trees and utility poles were down throughout the county.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTy Ty$1,000Trees were blown down in Ty Ty.
April 2021Flash FloodTy Ty-Water was reported over the road at Lower Ty Ty Road and Dorsey Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindTy Ty-A tree and power lines were blown down on Upper Ty Ty Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindTy Ty-A tree was blown down across power lines on Ty Ty Whiddon Mill Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTy Ty-A tree was blown down near Ty Ty.
March 2012Heavy RainTy Ty-A storm total of 4.30 inches was reported in Ty Ty.

Every storm recorded in Tift 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
Hillsdale2.5 miles9
Pebblebrook4.2 miles9
Excelsior5.1 miles9
Phillipsburg7.1 miles9
Tifton7.5 miles9
Chula7.5 miles8
Unionville7.7 miles9
Kelltown7.9 miles9

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 Ty TyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2696719The 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 333293. 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.