Walthourville, Georgia
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hinesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31313. The Survey maps it on the Walthourville quadrangle. 3,680 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWalthourville fell from 4,111 to 3,680 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 | 4,111 | |
| 2020 | 3,680 | -431 (-10%) |
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.
- 1918 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Walthourville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
700 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 700 fires within 5 miles of Walthourville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,717 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 277 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 277 |
| Debris and open burning | 227 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 86 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 26 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Smoking | 9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walthourville in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | $14,000 | A 911 call center reported numerous downed power lines in and around the town of Walthourville. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | $6,000 | Large limbs and powerlines down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | $2,500 | A 911 call center relayed a report of a large tree branch down on a car on Talmadge Road near Busbee Road. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | $1,000 | The public reported several 4 to 5 inch diameter tree limbs down on Highway 119. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | $500 | Liberty County 911 call center reported one tree down near the intersection of Highway 119 and Highway 84. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | $500 | Law Enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Carter Drive and Griffin Road, 1 mile south-southeast of Walthourville, Georgia. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | - | The public reported several trees down across Route 84. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | - | A tree was reported down on Arnold Drive near Allenhurst. |
| November 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | - | Liberty County warning point reported three trees blown down at the intersection of Talmadge Road and Oglethorpe Highway. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | - | Liberty County communications center reported a tree down at the intersection of Oglethorpe Highway and Talmadge Road. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Walthourville | - | A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail in Walthourville, Georgia. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Walthourville | - | A fire department reported quarter to half dollar size hail. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | - | Trees and powerlines down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down large limbs on a road. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walthourville | - | Trees and power lines were down. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Walthourville | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Walthourville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allenhurst | 1.5 miles | 18 | |
| Live Oak | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Pinewood Estates | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Deerwood Estates | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Wildwood | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Cherokee Village | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Creek Island | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Pointe South | 3.5 miles | 18 |
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 Walthourville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q304642 | 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 356617. 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.
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.









