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Waverly Hall, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waverly Hall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31831. The Survey maps it on the Waverly Hall quadrangle. 638 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Waverly Hall within Harris County

Population over time

2 figures

Waverly Hall fell from 735 to 638 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
2010735
2020638-97 (-13%)

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

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Waverly Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 878 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 52 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 burning133
Arson/incendiarism52
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2016Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-004
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TALBOT-017
22 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TALBOT-013
22 September 2001Arson/incendiarism4.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-HARRIS-005
17 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-HARRIS-003
16 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waverly Hall in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2006LightningWaverly Hall$125,000A former National Weather Service employee reported that lightning struck a house and set it on fire. The home burned to the ground and was a complete loss.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWaverly Hall$25,000The Harris County 911 Center reported that a tree was blown down onto a home in Waverly Hall. An exterior wall of the home suffered significant damage as a result.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWaverly Hall$10,000The Harris County 911 Center reported numerous trees blown down, mostly in the Waverly Hall area.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWaverly Hall$3,000Harris county 911 reported trees and power lines down in Waverly Hall and Ellerslie.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWaverly Hall$2,000The Harris County Emergency Manager reported a large tree branch blown down onto a power line at a residence on Waverly Circle in Waverly Hall.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindWaverly Hall$1,500The Harris County 911 Center reported that a few trees were down on power lines in the Waverly Hall area.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindWaverly Hall$1,000Tree down near the intersection of jordan dr and oneal dr.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWaverly Hall$1,000The Waverly fire department reported dime size hail and 2 trees down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindWaverly Hall$500The Harris County 911 Center reported 1 power line down in Waverly Hall.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWaverly Hall$500The Waverly Hall Fire Department reported that one tree had fallen on Georgia Highway 85.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindWaverly Hall$500Harris county 911 reported thunderstorm winds knocked a couple of trees down on highway 315.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindWaverly Hall$500Thunderstorm winds knocked several large trees down.
May 2009HailWaverly Hall-The public observed penny to quarter-sized hail in far eastern Harris county, just east of Waverly Hall at the intersection of Georgia Highway 208 and 36, eastward toward the Talbot county line, continuing into Talbot county. This hail occurred from a re-intensification of the the same thunderstorm that earlier dumped nickel-sized hail west of Mulberry Grove.
April 2004HailWaverly Hall-The public reported half-dollar-sized hail just north of Waverly Hall and amateur radio operators reported penny-sized hail near Pine Mountain.
May 2004HailWaverly Hall-A storm spotter reported penny-sized hail.
May 2003HailWaverly Hall-Amateur radio operators reported penny-sized hail.
May 2003HailWaverly Hall-The public reported nickel-sized hail.
May 2003HailWaverly Hall-The Harris county 911 center reported nickel-sized hail.
May 2002HailWaverly Hall-The Harris county 911 center reported dime size hail.
May 1998HailWaverly Hall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Turntime Crossroads2.7 miles15
Ossahatchie2.9 miles15
Ridgeway3.4 miles16
Oak Mountain4.1 miles16
Ellerslie4.9 miles15
Gordydale5.8 miles17
Kingsboro7.2 miles15
Cataula7.2 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 Waverly HallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1846972The 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 333376. 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.