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Wilmington Island, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Tybee Island-Wilmington Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31410. It stands on Wilmington Island. The Survey maps it on the Fort Pulaski quadrangle. 15,129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Wilmington Island within Chatham County

Population over time

2 figures

Wilmington Island fell from 15,138 to 15,129 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
201015,138
202015,129-9 (-0%)

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

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Wilmington Island between 1993 and 2017, burning about 107 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 1994Natural1.5 acresWassaw National Wildlife RefugeTRUST
20 July 2009Natural1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1993Recreation and ceremony2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wilmington Island: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Savannah DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1966

Every working recorded in Chatham 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
Woodridge Estates0.6 miles17
Wilmington Park1.0 miles15
Harbor Creek1.4 miles17
Golden Isles1.5 miles17
River Oaks1.7 miles17
Turners Rock1.8 miles17
Wilmington1.9 miles15
Whitemarsh Island2.9 miles17

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 Wilmington IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2365290The 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 1867248. 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.