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Waco, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bremen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30182. The Survey maps it on the Bremen quadrangle. 536 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,381 feet above sea level.

Waco within Haralson County

Population over time

2 figures

Waco grew from 516 to 536 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
2010516
2020536+20 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

376 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 376 fires within 5 miles of Waco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,097 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 149 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 burning152
Arson/incendiarism149
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural4
Smoking2

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 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARALSON-007
9 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-HARALSON-007
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HARALSON008
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CARROLL-007
5 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARALSON-004
30 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-HARALSON-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haralson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Waco: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Iron, Aluminum, Iron-Pyrite. 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
Bauxite MineAluminumPast Producer
Crew ProspectGoldOccurrenceStream Placer
Reeds Mountain MineSulfur, IronPast Producer
Reeds Mt. MineIron-PyritePast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Haralson County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waco in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
January 2020Thunderstorm WindWaco$25,000The broad cast media reported a wall was blown in at a store in Bremen.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindWaco$20,000The Haralson County Emergency Management Director reported that a barn located on Old Pleasant Hill Road was moved off its foundation by thunderstorm wind gusts. He noted that 66 support posts on the structure were pulled out of the ground. Several trees were also down in the vicinity. The public measured wind gusts at 60 mph.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindWaco$1,000Tree reported down on pinewood ln .
May 2023Thunderstorm WindWaco$1,000Report of tree down along HWY 78 in the town of Waco, GA.
June 2025HailWaco-Quarter-sized hail reported in Waco area.
May 1999HailWaco-The public reported hail from dime size up to golf ball size.

Every storm recorded in Haralson 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
Budapest2.0 miles15
Bremen2.4 miles15
West Crossing3.8 miles15
West Bremen4.1 miles16
Tabernacle5.8 miles16
Tallapoosa6.3 miles15
Morgan6.6 miles15
Buchanan6.9 miles16

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 WacoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2001478The 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 333338. 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.