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.
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
Bartow Historic Districtlisted 2009
Population over time
2 figuresBartow 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 286 | |
| 2020 | 186 | -100 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Louisville South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
8 of 15 photographs shown, 2017Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Every photograph of Jefferson County
Fires near this place
184 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 95 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-JEFFERSON-008 |
| 25 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-JEFFERSON-011 |
| 13 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-JEFFERSON-024 |
| 13 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2019 | Natural | 18 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020JEFFERSON006 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Bartow | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartow | $2,000 | The public reported that several trees and many large limbs were blown down, some blocking Highway 221. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartow | $1,000 | Tree down near the intersection of Hwy 221 and Hwy 319. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Bartow | $1,000 | The 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 2006 | Hail | Bartow | - | The public observed penny-sized hail. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Bartow | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wadley | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Moxley | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Almira | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Pinetucky (historical) | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Pine Hill | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| Aldreds | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Cunningham Corner | 6.5 miles | 7 | |
| Old Town | 9.1 miles | 7 |
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 Bartow | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3261168 | 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 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.





