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Woolsey, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Brooks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30215. The Survey maps it on the Brooks quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Woolsey within Fayette County

Population over time

2 figures

Woolsey grew from 158 to 206 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
2010158
2020206+48 (+30%)

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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Woolsey between 1992 and 2019, burning about 335 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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 burning53
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking4
Natural1

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
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism36 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use9.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1995Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 1999Arson/incendiarism4.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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 Woolsey: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Allen ProspectGemstoneProspect

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woolsey in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWoolsey$25,000The Fayette County Emergency Management Director, the public, and amateur radio operators reported that several trees were down in areas outside the confirmed tornado touchdown area. Trees were down near the Harp Nursery between Hilo Road and Woolsey and other trees were down on Georgia Highway 54, some on homes. In the Woolsey area, a chicken coop was destroyed and lawn furniture was tossed about.
March 2012LightningWoolsey$10,000The Fayette County Emergency Manager reported that lightning struck a residential structure on Osbourne Court, damaging the roof.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindWoolsey$2,000The Fayette County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees were blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWoolsey$1,000Power lines were downed at the intersection of goza road and antioch road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWoolsey$1,000Trees downed near the intersection of Hampton Road and GA92.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWoolsey$1,000Wires were downed in the 100 block of Chappell Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWoolsey$1,000Report of tree and powerlines down near Hwy 92 and Mud Bridge Rd.
May 2004HailWoolsey-An amateur radio operator reported penny-sized hail near Georgia Highway 92.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Woolsey Creek Plantation0.2 miles9
Bakersfield Farms0.4 miles9
Stubbs Plantation0.8 miles9
Gantt Acres0.9 miles9
Gypsy Woods1.3 miles9
Woolsey Woods1.4 miles9
Inman1.6 miles10
Calebs Meadows1.7 miles10

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 WoolseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2095880The 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 333466. 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.