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.
Population over time
2 figuresWilmington 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15,138 | |
| 2020 | 15,129 | -9 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Fort Pulaski quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Pulaski quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
30 since 1993Regional 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 ceremony | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 July 1994 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge | TRUST |
| 20 July 2009 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 July 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 July 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 June 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savannah Deposit | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | 1966 |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodridge Estates | 0.6 miles | 17 | |
| Wilmington Park | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Harbor Creek | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Golden Isles | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| River Oaks | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Turners Rock | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Wilmington | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Whitemarsh Island | 2.9 miles | 17 |
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 Island | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2365290 | The 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.









