Screven Georgia Map

About Screven, Georgia

Screven is a locality in Wayne County, Georgia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 769. The population density is 137.7 people per km². Screven is located at 31.4863°N, 82.0171°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Screven is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 31560.

Screven occupies a flat, expansive stretch of the coastal plain where the horizon remains wide and unobstructed by any significant rise in the earth. It lies 27.4 miles northeast of Waycross, GA (from Waycross, GA: bearing 46°T), and is situated 11.4 miles southwest of Jesup. The land is defined by a low, persistent humidity that clings to the longleaf pines and thickets of kudzu, creating a heavy, verdant stillness during the humid afternoons. A mile to the west, Little Satilla Creek carves a slow, dark path through the soil, its current barely perceptible beneath the canopy of oaks. Further out, the landscape yields to the quiet expanse of the Little Satilla Wildlife Management Area, where the brush remains dense and largely undisturbed by the passage of modern life. When the light fades at dusk, the sky shifts into a bruised purple, casting long, thin shadows across the fields that seem to stretch toward the distant, unseen presence of Bonnet Lake.

Screven maintains a pace dictated by the seasonal cycles of its agricultural roots, where the scent of turned earth often hangs in the air long after the machinery has been silenced for the day. Local industry remains tethered to the timber and harvests that have sustained the region for generations, grounding the economy in the reliable yield of the surrounding woodland. The character of the place is built upon a quiet resilience, visible in the weathered facades of buildings that have observed the steady, incremental changes of the decades without fanfare. Residents navigate their daily routines with an understated familiarity, moving through a landscape where the primary landmark is the persistence of the pines and the rhythmic, seasonal labor of the soil. There is a distinct lack of artifice here, a quality that keeps the focus squarely on the immediate, tangible reality of the work at hand and the slow, deliberate turning of the year.

About This Screven Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Screven, Georgia. Coordinates: 31.486325, -82.01706. 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 Screven includes the ZIP code (31560), telephone area code (229), county seat of Wayne County (Jesup), and school district assignment (Wayne 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.