Satilla Georgia Map

About Satilla, Georgia

Satilla is a locality in Jeff Davis County, Georgia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 487. The population density is 61.4 people per km². Satilla is located at 31.7874°N, 82.5679°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 31539.

Satilla emerges from the flat, pine-shadowed expanse of the inland plains where the heavy scent of resin hangs thick in the humid air. It lies 25.4 miles northeast of Douglas, GA (from Douglas, GA: bearing 41°T), and is situated 5.9 miles south-southeast of Hazlehurst. The landscape is defined by the steady, dark flow of the Big Satilla Creek, which carves a languid path through the loamy soil less than a mile from the center of Satilla. Sunlight filters through the dense canopy of longleaf pine, casting long, splintered shadows across the ground that shift with the slow turning of the afternoon. Five miles away, the surface of Lake Mayers remains a polished mirror of gray glass, undisturbed by the urgency of the modern world. Beyond the immediate tree line, the terrain flattens into an open, verdant horizon, occasionally broken by the distant, hazy silhouette of Rose Hill rising against the sky.

History in Satilla remains tethered to the rhythmic demands of the land, where the economy has long been shaped by the harvest of timber and the careful cultivation of local crops. The proximity to 080-002, a SREC, preserves a quiet corridor of protected wilderness that anchors the ecological character of the region. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a pendulum, marking the passage of seasons through the changing color of the foliage and the quiet industry of the small-scale agricultural plots surrounding the residential blocks. Each evening, as the heat of the day dissipates, the atmosphere takes on a crystalline quality, turning the simple architecture of the local structures into silhouettes against a vast, deepening violet sky. The people of Satilla maintain a connection to this soil that is as persistent as the water in the creek, grounding their daily existence in the quiet, enduring patterns of the inland forest.

About This Satilla Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Satilla, Georgia. Coordinates: 31.787411, -82.567914. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Satilla includes the ZIP code (31539), telephone area code (229), county seat of Jeff Davis County (Hazlehurst), and school district assignment (Jeff Davis County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.