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.
Population over time
3 figuresTy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 716 | |
| 2010 | 725 | +9 (+1%) |
| 2020 | 641 | -84 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Ty Ty quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
4 photographs, 1977Taken 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.
Adler, Thomas A. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Adler, Thomas A. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Fleischhauer, Carl (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Adler, Thomas A. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
311 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 200 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 52 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2016-TIFT-004 |
| 23 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 3.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Lightning | Ty Ty | 1 killed, 2 hurt | Three 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ty Ty | $150,000 | Several roofs were damaged and vehicles were overturned. Trees and power lines were also down, with power outages and traffic lights out. |
| April 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Ty Ty | $100,000 | A 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ty Ty | $15,000 | Trees 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ty Ty | $5,000 | Numerous trees and utility poles were down throughout the county. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ty Ty | $1,000 | Trees were blown down in Ty Ty. |
| April 2021 | Flash Flood | Ty Ty | - | Water was reported over the road at Lower Ty Ty Road and Dorsey Road. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ty Ty | - | A tree and power lines were blown down on Upper Ty Ty Road. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ty Ty | - | A tree was blown down across power lines on Ty Ty Whiddon Mill Road. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ty Ty | - | A tree was blown down near Ty Ty. |
| March 2012 | Heavy Rain | Ty Ty | - | A storm total of 4.30 inches was reported in Ty Ty. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillsdale | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Pebblebrook | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Excelsior | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Phillipsburg | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Tifton | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Chula | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Unionville | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Kelltown | 7.9 miles | 9 |
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 Ty | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2696719 | 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 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.




