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Barwick, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pavo-Barwick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31720. The Survey maps it on the Pavo quadrangle. 363 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 266 feet above sea level.

Barwick within Thomas County

Population over time

2 figures

Barwick fell from 386 to 363 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
2010386
2020363-23 (-6%)

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.

Fires near this place

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Barwick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 752 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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 burning116
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 1993Debris and open burning9.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BROOKS-002
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BROOKS-003
21 September 2019Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020THOMAS005
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-THOMAS-005
14 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-THOMAS-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thomas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barwick in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2022Tornado (EF1)Barwick$50,000This tornado touched down just west of GA Highway 33 in Thomas County south of Barwick. The tornado crossed the highway and impacted a single family home causing roof and chimney damage to the residence. One barn was destroyed on site and another was heavily damaged. Homes directly east of the initial residence had only cosmetic damage, though large pecan trees were uprooted and snapped. The tornado crossed Dixie Barwick Road southeast of Barwick where numerous trees in the area were snapped or uprooted. The tornado continued through rural portions of the county, damaging a barn south of Barwick Road. The tornado crossed Moore Road and caused substantial tree damage with several large pines snapped. An abandoned residence in the area suffered damage from fallen trees. The tornado crossed Barwick Road near Coffee Road and continued causing significant tree damage around a residence on Coffee Road. An outbuilding at this residence suffered structural damage. The tornado continued along Coffee Road, eventually lifting in the vicinity of Tallokas Road south of Willis Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBarwick-Trees were snapped along Coffee Road near Barwick in far eastern Thomas county.

Every storm recorded in Thomas 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
Five Forks3.2 miles7
Patten4.3 miles7
Boston7.3 miles7
Eason7.9 miles7
Touraine (historical)8.0 miles8
Dillon8.1 miles8
Merrillville8.4 miles8
Enon9.0 miles9

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 BarwickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2359149The 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 310835. 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.