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Berlin, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Berlin-Ellenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31722. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berlin East quadrangle. 511 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 259 feet above sea level.

Berlin within Colquitt County

Population over time

2 figures

Berlin fell from 551 to 511 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
2010551
2020511-40 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Berlin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 892 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 23 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 burning132
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2

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
9 September 2010Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BROOKS-004
3 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-COLQUITT-004
26 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-COOK-009
26 September 1996Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1997Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1992Debris and open burning5.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colquitt County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berlin in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash 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
January 2017Thunderstorm WindBerlin$50,000The Colquitt Electric Membership Corporation reported numerous power poles and power lines down through portions of Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, and Lowndes counties.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindBerlin$10,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBerlin$3,000Power lines were blown down onto Highway 133 South.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindBerlin$2,000The sheriff's office reported several trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindBerlin$1,000A SKYWARN storm spotter reported numerous downed trees on Perry Road just north of the Brooks County line.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindBerlin$1,000Trees down on Little Mexico and Edmonson Roads. Reported by the Colquitt County Sheriff.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindBerlin$1,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and power lines.
May 2024Flash FloodBerlin-The public reported street flooding in the Berlin area.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBerlin-Two trees were blown down along Tillman Road.
February 2012Heavy RainBerlin-A 24 hour rainfall total of 3.00 inches was reported by CoCoRaHS site GA-CQ-1.
March 2012Heavy RainBerlin-A 24 hour total of 4.00 inches was measured at GA-CQ-1.

Every storm recorded in Colquitt 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
Weldon (historical)4.4 miles9
Bayboro (historical)7.4 miles8
Autreyville7.5 miles9
Ellenton7.7 miles8
Pineboro8.0 miles9
Sunset9.4 miles9
South Moultrie10.0 miles9
Ganor10.2 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 BerlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2345711The 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 354554. 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.