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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.

Ambrose within Coffee County

Population over time

2 figures

Ambrose 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.

YearPeople Change
2010380
2020327-53 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

287 since 1992

Regional 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 burning171
Equipment and vehicle use44
Arson/incendiarism22
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking6

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
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-COFFEE-018
24 September 1997Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-COFFEE-004
18 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019IRWIN002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

25 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1998Tornado (F0)Ambrose$30,000Tornado snapped trees and power lines. Damaged a pickup truck.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindAmbrose$2,000Trees 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 2010Thunderstorm WindAmbrose$2,000The 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 2002Thunderstorm WindAmbrose$2,000Large trees down on power lines, poles down.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindAmbrose$1,500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindAmbrose$500no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindAmbrose$500no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-Tri-county dispatch reported a tree was blown down along County Line Road. The time of damage was based on radar.
October 2025FloodAmbrose-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 2023Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-Trees were reported blown down countywide. The time of damage was based on radar data.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-Multiple trees were blown down in Ambrose.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-Trees were blown down in Ambrose.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-Trees were blown down near Ambrose. The time of damage was based on radar imagery.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-Trees were blown down near the town center of Ambrose.
November 2011Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-Trees were blown down on Highway 32 West, about 1 mile east of the county line.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-Power lines were blown down. The report was from the Satilla Rural Electric Membership Corporation.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-The Coffee County 911 Center reported trees down in the vicinity of Ambrose.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-The Coffee County Emergency Manager reported some trees down along Ambrose road in the town of Ambrose.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-Coffee County Emergency Management reported several trees down along Ambrose Road in Ambrose due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2006Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-One quarter of a tin roof ripped off of a seven stall house barn in Bridgetown along County Road 149.
September 2004Funnel CloudAmbrose-Hurricane "Frances"
July 2003Tornado (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 2003Flash FloodAmbrose-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 2006Thunderstorm WindAmbrose-no account filed
September 2004Tornado (F0)Ambrose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Bushnell3.7 miles7
Broxton7.1 miles7
Upton8.1 miles7
Lotts8.3 miles8
Pridgen8.6 miles7
Sapps Still9.4 miles7
Blystonel9.4 miles8
Douglas10.5 miles8

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 AmbroseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2751462The 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.