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Winterville, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Winterville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30683. The Survey maps it on the Athens East quadrangle. 1,201 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Winterville within Clarke County

On record in Winterville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Winterville grew from 1,122 to 1,201 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
20101,122
20201,201+79 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Winterville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 254 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 24 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 burning102
Arson/incendiarism24
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony2
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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-OGLETHORPE-014
22 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-OGLETHORPE-010
14 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Winterville: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Athens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
The Georgia Loan & Trust Co. MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winterville in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood, 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
August 2010LightningWinterville$200,000The Clarke County 911 Center reported that lightning set a commercial business on fire on Voyles Road, approximately two miles northwest of Winterville in northeast Clarke county. The business suffered significant damage from the resulting fire.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindWinterville$15,000The Clarke County Emergency Manager reported multiple trees blown down along Lakeview Drive.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWinterville$7,000The Clarke County 911 Center reported that at least 10 trees and a half-a-dozen power lines were down from northwest of Winterville to south of Athens near the Oconee county line. One tree was down on Simonton Bridge Road, blocking the road.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWinterville$2,000The public reported that two large trees were down and numerous branches were blown down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWinterville$1,000Photo of a large tree down in the roadway along Main St in Winterville, GA.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindWinterville$1,000The Clarke County 911 Center reported a large tree blown down near Hull Road and Harve Mathis Road.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindWinterville$500Thunderstorm winds damaged two barns and a porch along Dawson Street. Small hail was reported as well.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWinterville-Numerous reports of trees and powerlines down on roads and houses in the Winterville area.
March 2017HailWinterville-A report of quarter size hail in Winterville was received over social media.
August 2007HailWinterville-The public observed penny-sized hail. It was reported to be accumulating on the ground south of Winterville. One large tree was also blown down in Winterville.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWinterville-The Clarke county Emergency Management Director reported that several trees were down on power lines. A storm spotter for the National Weather Service also reported large limbs down in the Oconee Heights area northwest of Athens.
June 2001FloodWinterville-The public reported minor street flooding. Up to 1.25 inches of rain fell in 30 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Winter Hills0.3 miles13
West Winter1.1 miles13
Overlook Lake1.3 miles13
Windfall Heights1.5 miles13
Weatherly Woods1.8 miles13
Lakeside Hills2.5 miles13
Shoal Creek2.6 miles13
Eastmeadow2.8 miles13

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 WintervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2784729The 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 356645. 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.