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White Plains, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the White Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30678. The Survey maps it on the White Plains quadrangle. 239 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

White Plains within Greene County

Population over time

3 figures

White Plains fell from 283 to 239 between 2000 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
2000283
2010284+1 (+0%)
2020239-45 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Photographs

3 photographs, 1941

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower's house which has been creosoted. On the Jackson farm near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia
FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower's house which has been creosoted. On the Jackson farm near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia
Delano, Jack, 1941. Library of Congress
Greene County, Georgia. The White Plains bridge club
Greene County, Georgia. The White Plains bridge club
Delano, Jack, 1941. Library of Congress
Mrs. Laura Clark, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower in White Plains, Greene County, Georgia
Mrs. Laura Clark, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower in White Plains, Greene County, Georgia
Delano, Jack, 1941. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of White Plains between 1992 and 2019, burning about 504 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 5 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 burning56
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural11
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
30 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2005Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use34 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GREENE-004
8 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Plains in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 1998: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWhite Plains$500no account filed
May 1998HailWhite Plains-The sheriff's office in White Plains reported nickel to quarter size hail.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Swaggy Valley1.1 miles11
Mosquito Crossing4.3 miles11
Siloam5.1 miles12
Flat Rock (historical)5.1 miles11
Ruth (historical)5.5 miles11
Veazey6.0 miles11
Liberty6.4 miles11
Comfort (historical)8.1 miles11

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 White PlainsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1938378The 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 356635. 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.