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Uvalda, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Uvalda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30473. The Survey maps it on the Uvalda quadrangle. 439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 177 feet above sea level.

Uvalda within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Uvalda fell from 598 to 439 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
2010598
2020439-159 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

278 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Uvalda between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,294 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 46 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 burning139
Arson/incendiarism46
Equipment and vehicle use34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking12
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony9

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 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MONTGOMERY-005
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TOOMBS-014
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MONTGOMERY-008
29 September 2012Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-MONTGOMERY-001
24 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MONTGOMERY008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Uvalda: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Lott MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uvalda in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
February 2003Thunderstorm WindUvalda$15,000The Montgomery county 911 center reported that numerous trees and power lines were blown down. One house sustained some structural damage also as a result of the wind and downed trees.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindUvalda$5,000no account filed
October 2011HailUvalda-The public observed quarter-sized hail at the Dollar General Store in Uvalda.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Charlotteville1.8 miles10
Alston3.5 miles8
Oak Grove6.6 miles9
Petross8.0 miles9
Mount Vernon10.9 miles9
Ailey10.9 miles9
McGregor11.1 miles9
Higgston12.7 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 UvaldaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1965068The 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 324646. 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.