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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.

Tybee Island within Chatham County

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

Every listing in Chatham County

Population over time

2 figures

Tybee 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,990
20203,114+124 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

1 photograph, 2017

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.

Aerial view of a pier on Tybee Island, Georgia, near Savannah
Aerial view of a pier on Tybee Island, Georgia, near Savannah
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

6 since 1995

Regional 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 ceremony3
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
24 July 1995Naturalunder an acreFort Pulaski National MonumentTALLEY
20 July 2009Natural1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 May 1996Recreation and ceremony3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 April 2000Recreation and ceremony68 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2000-CHATHAM-036
4 March 2017Recreation and ceremony10 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-009
16 October 2012Natural25 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-CHATHAM-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Savannah Beach PlacerTitaniumOccurrenceBeach Placer

Every working recorded in Chatham 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
Savannah Beach0.5 miles15
Fort Screven1.4 miles17
Lazaretto (historical)1.7 miles17
Woodridge Estates6.2 miles17
River Oaks6.4 miles17
Golden Isles6.7 miles17
Wilmington Island6.8 miles17
Harbor Creek6.9 miles17

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 IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q588907The 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.