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Vidette, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vidette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30830. The Survey maps it on the Gough quadrangle. 103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 351 feet above sea level.

Vidette within Burke County

Population over time

2 figures

Vidette fell from 112 to 103 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
2010112
2020103-9 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Vidette between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,213 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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 burning95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Debris and open burning2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning14 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2015Debris and open burning26 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-BURKE-006
15 September 2001Debris and open burning41 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-BURKE-011
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BURKE-023

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke 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 Vidette: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. 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
Milledgeville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary

Every working recorded in Burke County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vidette in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Vidette$56,000Storm survey found numerous trees and a few powerlines down along a path in rural Burke county. One home had trees down on an out building and minor damage was done to the back of an abonded church. Damage was also done to several wheat fields.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindVidette$6,000Burke county official reported multiple trees down on Hwy 305 near Vidette.
September 2024Tornado (EF0)Vidette$5,000A brief tornado touched down just east of Vidette, GA on 9/26/24.|This was in association with the initial outer bands of Hurricane|Helene. The tornado is radar/EM confirmed as the widespread|damage to trees and infrastructure in Burke County, GA made it|impossible to survey this tornado after the fact. The tornado|produced tree and power line damage along its path before lifting|just north of State Route 305.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Vidette$5,000NWS Storm Survey from Atlanta office tracked an EF0 tornado across Jefferson county into Burke County. Burke Emergency Manager also confirmed trees and powerlines down along southeast of Vidette on Wyatt Place road between highways 24 and 305.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindVidette$500Burke County EMA reported a tree down on Hills Mill Pond Road.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindVidette-Report of trees down at the intersection of highway 24 and Bailey Rd. Time estimated by radar.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindVidette-Two trees were downed, including one large one that blocked the road, and a tree that also took down a power line, on S. College Ave near and just south of Vidette. Time estimated.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindVidette-Tree fell and also took down a power line on Hills Mill Pond Rd. Time estimated.
May 2008HailVidette-Sheriff reported nickel size hail in the Vidette area.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindVidette-Trees were reported down northeast of Waynesville and also on hwy 25 north of Waynesville.

Every storm recorded in Burke 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
Gough3.9 miles16
Rosier4.1 miles7
Drone4.9 miles16
Saint Clair8.0 miles15
Magruder8.1 miles7
Le Roy (historical)8.3 miles15
Walker Grove Settlement8.8 miles15
Elmore (historical)9.9 miles15

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 VidetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2788613The 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 324706. 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.