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Woodbury, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Woodbury census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30293. The Survey maps it on the Woodbury quadrangle. 908 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Woodbury within Meriwether County

On record in Woodbury

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Woodbury fell from 961 to 908 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
2010961
2020908-53 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

185 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Woodbury between 1992 and 2020, burning about 843 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 27 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 burning118
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
29 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2001Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-MERIWETHER-003
14 September 1998Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether 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 Woodbury: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Molina Sand Co--Lawrence MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Meriwether County

Storms near this place

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodbury in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWoodbury$25,000The broadcast media reported structural damage at the Fuel South gas station at the intersection of Highways 85 and 109 in Woodbury.
August 2006LightningWoodbury$5,000The Meriwether County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a home causing minor damage to the structure.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindWoodbury$5,000Several large trees and power lines were downed by thunder storm winds.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindWoodbury$5,000Several large trees were blown down.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindWoodbury$5,000Several large trees and tree limbs were blown down at the Woodbury city hall and the Flint River School Acadamy.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodbury$3,000The public reported that several trees and power lines were down in the east central portion of the county, near Woodbury.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindWoodbury$2,000The Meriwether County 911 Center reported that nine trees were down in the Woodbury, Warm Springs, and Manchester areas.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWoodbury$2,000The Meriwether County Emergency Management Director and the county 911 center reported that at least eight trees were down in Woodbury and just east of Woodbury as a result of a thunderstorm downburst.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWoodbury$500Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down along Georgia Highway 222 between Woodbury and Manchester.
March 2023HailWoodbury-Report of 1 inch hail in Woodybury.
March 2023Flash FloodWoodbury-The Emergency Manager reported the closure of Country Club Road due to flooding of a nearby pond. In addition to the 1.5 inches of rain that fell the previous day, radar estimates indicate that an additional 6 to 8 inches fell on March 26, resulting in the flash flooding.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-Several trees reported down at the intersection of Hwy 85 and Main St traffic light blown off pole.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-EM reports over 300 trees down in and around Jones Mill Rd and Flat Shoals Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-Report of two homes with trees on them along Riggins Ferry Rd southeast of Woodbury.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-Report of roof blown off of a home on Dromedary St.
July 2010HailWoodbury-The public observed penny-sized hail near Woodbury.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindWoodbury-The Meriwether County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were down in the southeast part of the county, southwest of Woodbury in the vicinity of Renolds Road and Georgia Highway 85. One tree was down blocking a road.
September 2007HailWoodbury-The public observed penny-sized hail.
March 2005HailWoodbury-The Meriwether County Fire Department reported penny-sized hail.
May 1993HailWoodbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meriwether 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
Carrolls2.2 miles8
Betts2.2 miles22
McLendon Crossroads2.4 miles22
Langdon2.8 miles22
Imlac3.0 miles8
Edman3.8 miles8
Andrews Crossroads4.2 miles22
Raleigh4.3 miles22

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 WoodburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2208776The 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 333457. 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.