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Bartow, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wadley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30413. It stands on Nails Creek. The Survey maps it on the Louisville South quadrangle. 186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 243 feet above sea level.

Bartow within Jefferson County

On record in Bartow

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bartow fell from 286 to 186 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
2010286
2020186-100 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

Photographs

8 of 15 photographs shown, 2017

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The main street along the railroad line in Bartow, an old Georgia cotton-ginning town
The main street along the railroad line in Bartow, an old Georgia cotton-ginning town
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
What's left of an old Pure gasoline station in Bartow, an old Georgia cotton-ginning town
What's left of an old Pure gasoline station in Bartow, an old Georgia cotton-ginning town
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Just for fun, owner Billy Perry decorated his cabins in Bartow, an old cotton-mill town in the U.S. state of Georgia, with advertising signs, election posters, licence plates and more and called the place the "Circle Ranch"
Just for fun, owner Billy Perry decorated his cabins in Bartow, an old cotton-mill town in the U.S. state of Georgia, with advertising signs, election posters, licence plates and more and called the place the "Circle Ranch"
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
A bird-house, or free take-one, bring-one lending library location, in Bartow, in eastern Georgia
A bird-house, or free take-one, bring-one lending library location, in Bartow, in eastern Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
An old drug-store window, advertising the laxitive Ex-Lax, in the old cotton-mill town of Bartow in eastern Georgia
An old drug-store window, advertising the laxitive Ex-Lax, in the old cotton-mill town of Bartow in eastern Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Three red barns in Bartow, an old cotton-mill town in the U.S. state of Georgia
Three red barns in Bartow, an old cotton-mill town in the U.S. state of Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Freight trains run right through little Bartow, an old cotton-mill town in the U.S. state of Georgia
Freight trains run right through little Bartow, an old cotton-mill town in the U.S. state of Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Whimsical directional sign in Bartow, an old cotton-ginning town in northeast Georgia
Whimsical directional sign in Bartow, an old cotton-ginning town in northeast Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Jefferson County

Fires near this place

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Bartow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 750 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 5 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 burning95
Equipment and vehicle use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural14
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism5

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
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-JEFFERSON-008
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-JEFFERSON-011
13 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JEFFERSON-024
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2019Natural18 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JEFFERSON006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bartow in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
June 1996Tornado (F0)Bartow$10,000no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBartow$2,000The public reported that several trees and many large limbs were blown down, some blocking Highway 221.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBartow$1,000Tree down near the intersection of Hwy 221 and Hwy 319.
May 2009FloodBartow$1,000The USGS gage on the Ogeechee River at Midville rose to the 6.0 foot flood stage during the evening of May 6th. This caused backup of water and minor flooding on William Swamp Creek, Rocky Creek, and Daniels Creek, upstream from Ogeechee River at Midville. Minor flooding of low lands adjacent to these creeks and streams occurred. Damage was confined to minor debris removal.
July 2006HailBartow-The public observed penny-sized hail.
April 1998HailBartow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Wadley3.8 miles8
Moxley5.2 miles8
Almira5.3 miles7
Pinetucky (historical)5.9 miles8
Pine Hill6.3 miles8
Aldreds6.5 miles8
Cunningham Corner6.5 miles7
Old Town9.1 miles7

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 BartowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3261168The 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 354475. 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.