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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.

Walthourville within Liberty County

Population over time

2 figures

Walthourville 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.

YearPeople Change
20104,111
20203,680-431 (-10%)

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.

Fires near this place

700 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism277
Debris and open burning227
Misuse of fire by a minor86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking9

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
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning5.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWalthourville$14,000A 911 call center reported numerous downed power lines in and around the town of Walthourville.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindWalthourville$6,000Large limbs and powerlines down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWalthourville$2,500A 911 call center relayed a report of a large tree branch down on a car on Talmadge Road near Busbee Road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWalthourville$1,000The public reported several 4 to 5 inch diameter tree limbs down on Highway 119.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindWalthourville$500Liberty County 911 call center reported one tree down near the intersection of Highway 119 and Highway 84.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWalthourville$500Law Enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Carter Drive and Griffin Road, 1 mile south-southeast of Walthourville, Georgia.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindWalthourville-The public reported several trees down across Route 84.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWalthourville-A tree was reported down on Arnold Drive near Allenhurst.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindWalthourville-Liberty County warning point reported three trees blown down at the intersection of Talmadge Road and Oglethorpe Highway.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWalthourville-Liberty County communications center reported a tree down at the intersection of Oglethorpe Highway and Talmadge Road.
March 2011HailWalthourville-A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail in Walthourville, Georgia.
June 2011HailWalthourville-A fire department reported quarter to half dollar size hail.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWalthourville-Trees and powerlines down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWalthourville-Thunderstorm winds knocked down large limbs on a road.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindWalthourville-Trees and power lines were down.
March 2003HailWalthourville-no account filed
May 1999HailWalthourville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
Allenhurst1.5 miles18
Live Oak2.7 miles18
Pinewood Estates3.0 miles18
Deerwood Estates3.2 miles18
Wildwood3.3 miles18
Cherokee Village3.4 miles18
Creek Island3.5 miles17
Pointe South3.5 miles18

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 WalthourvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q304642The 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.