Ambrose, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ambrose census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31512. The Survey maps it on the Ambrose quadrangle. 327 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 308 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAmbrose fell from 380 to 327 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 380 | |
| 2020 | 327 | -53 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Ambrose quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
287 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Ambrose between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,250 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 22 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 burning | 171 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-COFFEE-018 |
| 24 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-COFFEE-004 |
| 18 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019IRWIN002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ambrose in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Ambrose | $30,000 | Tornado snapped trees and power lines. Damaged a pickup truck. |
| December 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down on Curtis Vickers Road near Ambrose. The cost of damage was estimated for inclusion in StormData and could be inaccurate. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | $2,000 | The Douglas Enterprise reported a giant pecan tree blown down onto a home along New Hope Church Road in Ambrose. There was roof damage and damage to the eaves of the home. There was a significant weather alert in effect. The cost of damage was estimated. Around 6 inches of rainfall was estimated in the Ambrose area within a 48 hour period. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | $2,000 | Large trees down on power lines, poles down. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | $1,500 | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | $500 | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | $500 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | Tri-county dispatch reported a tree was blown down along County Line Road. The time of damage was based on radar. |
| October 2025 | Flood | Ambrose | - | The county EM reported ground truth rainfall around 6 inches in Ambrose with some road washouts in normally flood prone areas in the city and on secondary dirt roads. The location and time are approximate based on the EM report. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | Trees were reported blown down countywide. The time of damage was based on radar data. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | Multiple trees were blown down in Ambrose. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | Trees were blown down in Ambrose. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | Trees were blown down near Ambrose. The time of damage was based on radar imagery. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | Trees were blown down near the town center of Ambrose. |
| November 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | Trees were blown down on Highway 32 West, about 1 mile east of the county line. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | Power lines were blown down. The report was from the Satilla Rural Electric Membership Corporation. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | The Coffee County 911 Center reported trees down in the vicinity of Ambrose. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | The Coffee County Emergency Manager reported some trees down along Ambrose road in the town of Ambrose. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | Coffee County Emergency Management reported several trees down along Ambrose Road in Ambrose due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| January 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | One quarter of a tin roof ripped off of a seven stall house barn in Bridgetown along County Road 149. |
| September 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Ambrose | - | Hurricane "Frances" |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Ambrose | - | Report from Satilla REMA. Numerous trees down across northern portion of the county near Ambrose, Pridgen and Broxton. Sheriffs officer reported sighting funnel. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Ambrose | - | Pond dam burst one quarter mile west of of State Road 268 near Ambrose. Curtis Decker Rd. rendered impassible by flooding. Doppler radar estimates of 7 to 10 inches of rain in area over a 6 hour period. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ambrose | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Ambrose | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Ambrose | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2751462 | The 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 310508. 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.
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.




