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Williamson, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30292. The Survey maps it on the Griffin South quadrangle. 681 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Williamson within Pike County

Population over time

2 figures

Williamson grew from 352 to 681 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
2010352
2020681+329 (+93%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

309 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Williamson between 1992 and 2019, burning about 621 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 40 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 burning196
Arson/incendiarism40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking6

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
8 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020PIKE002
7 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PIKE-003
3 September 2011Debris and open burning3.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-SPALDING-007
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PIKE-001
14 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Williamson: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gemstone. 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
Unnamed Beryl DepositGemstoneOccurrence
Griffin Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Griffin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamson in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindWilliamson$25,000The Pike County 911 Center reported that three trees were down in the north and northeast part of the county, between Williamson and Zebulon. One tree was down on a home, another was down across a power line and adjacent road, and a third was down another road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWilliamson$10,000The Pike County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down near the intersection of Patton Road and Sunset Road. The metal roof was also blown off of a barn and wrapped around trees.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWilliamson$6,000The Pike County Emergency Manager reported trees down along Highway 362 and on Midland Street and Little Street in the Williamson area.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindWilliamson$5,000Multiple trees were downed in the area of chapel hill rd at patton rd.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindWilliamson$3,000Ema reports a few trees down in the chapel hill rd area.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWilliamson$3,000The Pike County 911 Center reported that from six to nine trees were down in the area northwest of Williamson to near the Spalding county line. About six trees were down on Bethany Church Road and one tree was down on Georgia Highway 362 west of Williamson. The public reported that three other trees were down in the same area. One residence on Bethany Church Road also reported having a swing set and trampoline blown over during the thunderstorm.
October 2012Flash FloodWilliamson$2,000Headwater streams of Flat, Birch, and Elkins Creeks had flash flooding near Williamson. Minor flooding of their natural flood plains and some dirt roads occurred causing debris cleanup.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindWilliamson$1,000A tree was downed onto the 1400 block of jonathans roost rd.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindWilliamson$1,000Pike county 911 reported trees down in the north end of the county near Williamson.
February 2024Flash FloodWilliamson-The Emergency Manager reported Hunter Road closed due to high flows on Elkins Creek and a smaller tributary. Radar estimates indicate 4 to 6 inches of rain quickly fell over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
February 2024Flash FloodWilliamson-The Emergency Manager reported Bethany Church Road, between Dunbar School Road and Jonathans Roost Road, due to high water on local creeks. Radar estimates indicate 4 to 6 inches of rain quickly fell over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
January 2023Tornado (EF1)Williamson-New high resolution areal imagery in concert with a reanalysis of radar data, areal surveys and ground surveys it has been determined that there were multiple tornadoes on the ground simultaneously in southwest Spalding and Northwestern Pike Counties as well as crossing tornado paths. The tornadoes were part of a larger mesocyclone which can be traced west all the way back to the Selma Alabama tornado. Our analysis determined that this tornado spun up near the center of the main mesocylone as it crossed the Flint River in SW Spalding County. The first evidence of a tornado touching down appear along Blanton Mill Road where several trees were uprooted. This tornado would become caught within the larger circulation and swing SE around the center through mostly wooded or swampy areas of SW Spalding County. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted in a path that that tracks ESE until it reaches Scott Barch Road. It is in this area it crosses the path of a tornado which passes approximately 2 minutes early moving NE on the eastern periphery of the larger mesocyclone. Low end EF1 damage occurred to a barn in this area, however, it could have occurred with the first tornado. Numerous trees are uprooted or snapped in this area as well. The tornado continued ESE crossing Flat Creek causing mid range EF1 damage to trees. It is noted per areal imagery and radar data that as the tornado approached Yarborough Rd and Shackleford Road it become absorbed/merged with a larger stronger circulation/tornado moving to the NE. Damage on the ground in this area is indicative of tornadoes coming in from 2 different directions. The particular circulation is terminated at this point as the larger more dominate tornado continues NE toward a rock quarry along Rover Zetalla Road. It should also be noted that EF2 damage occurred shortly after these 2 tornadoes merged near Yarborough Road but will be attributed to the more dominate circulation.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWilliamson-EM report of two trees down within the Williamson city limits.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWilliamson-Report of multiple trees down on Hutcheson Rd near Rocky Way.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWilliamson-Multiple trees down on Zebulon Rd near Purser Cir.
May 2008HailWilliamson-An amateur radio operator reported quarter-sized hail across the far northeast part of Pike county, east of Williamson.
August 2006HailWilliamson-The public reported a small amount of penny-sized hail. Most of the hail that fell was pea-sized.
June 2000HailWilliamson-The Zebulon police relayed a report of dime size hail in Williamson.
April 1999HailWilliamson-Two public reports indicated quarter size hail fell in Williamson.
October 2002Heavy RainWilliamson-no account filed
April 1998HailWilliamson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Beeks (historical)2.6 miles9
Reidsboro3.3 miles9
Jolly4.4 miles9
Smiths Chapel5.2 miles9
Hollonville5.4 miles9
Zebulon5.6 miles9
Bottoms5.9 miles9
Weaver (historical)6.5 miles9

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 WilliamsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1936603The 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 333435. 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.