Tybee Island, Georgia
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Tybee Island-Wilmington Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31328. It stands on Horse Pen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tybee Island North quadrangle. 3,114 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
On record in Tybee Island
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 12 of 15 shown
Carbo House, Thelisted 2010
Dutton-Waller Raised Tybee Cottagelisted 2008
J. Herbert and Julia Johnson Raised Tybee Cottagelisted 2008
Morgan-Ille Cottagelisted 2008
Mulherin-Righton Raised Tybee Cottagelisted 2008
James and Odessa Rourke Jr. Raised Tybee Cottagelisted 2010
Sea View Apartmentslisted 2003
Tybee Island Strand Cottages Historic Districtlisted 1999
Edgar A. Weil Houselisted 2016- Edmund and Mildred Abrahams Raised Tybee Cottagelisted 2020
- Bordley Cottage-Beach View Houselisted 2014
- Curry-Miller-Byrd Cottagelisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresTybee Island grew from 2,990 to 3,114 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 | 2,990 | |
| 2020 | 3,114 | +124 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1920 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Savannah Beach North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Tybee Island North quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph, 2017Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Tybee Island between 1995 and 2017, burning about 108 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 July 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Pulaski National Monument | TALLEY |
| 20 July 2009 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 May 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 April 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 68 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2000-CHATHAM-036 |
| 4 March 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-CHATHAM-009 |
| 16 October 2012 | Natural | 25 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-CHATHAM-004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tybee Island: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savannah Beach Placer | Titanium | Occurrence | Beach Placer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Savannah Beach | 0.5 miles | 15 | |
| Fort Screven | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Lazaretto (historical) | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Woodridge Estates | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| River Oaks | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| Golden Isles | 6.7 miles | 17 | |
| Wilmington Island | 6.8 miles | 17 | |
| Harbor Creek | 6.9 miles | 17 |
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 Tybee Island | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q588907 | 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 333294. 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.









