Bolingbroke, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Culloden-Bolingbroke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31210. The Survey maps it on the Bolingbroke quadrangle. 497 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

Bolingbroke within Monroe County

On record in Bolingbroke

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

Great Hill Placelisted 1973

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1956 USGS Bolingbroke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Bolingbroke quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

325 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 325 fires within 5 miles of Bolingbroke between 1992 and 2019, burning about 708 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 29 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	216
Arson/incendiarism	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Smoking	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	7

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
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MONROE-004
21 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MONROE-004
21 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bolingbroke in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2007	Lightning	Bolingbroke	$250,000	The Forsyth County Emergency Management Director reported that two homes were struck and set on fire by lightning. One of the homes sustained substantial damage. Damage to the other home was less severe, but still significant. Lightning also struck a transformer in the area and left about 5000 residents in the area without power for several hours.
November 2002	Tornado (F0)	Bolingbroke	$100,000	The National Weather Service disaster survey team continued its survey into extreme southern Monroe county and classified the damage here as F0 tornado damage as well. The same tornado that originated in extreme northern Bibb county moved east-northeast into extreme southern Monroe county, continuing to do damage in the Sleepy Creek and Cross Creek Subdivisions. The damage was confined mainly to numerous downed pine trees, a few on homes, and a few incidents of shingles blown off roofs. At least eight homes and four vehicles were damaged by downed trees. One four foot diameter tree was blown right through the bedroom of one home and at least two dozen trees were tossed about like twiggs in another part of the subdivision. Two roads were blocked by downed trees as well.
January 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Bolingbroke	$45,000	A National Weather Service survey found that an EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 95 MPH and a maximum path width of 200 yards touched down in a wooded area between Rumble Road, Jenkins Road and Dames Ferry Road near the confluence of Deer Creek and Little Deer Creek. The tornado moved northeast snapping and uprooting multiples trees. The tornado crossed Dames Ferry Road southwest of the Lake Juliette dam, flipping a mobile home on its side before ending just west of Highway 23/87. [1/1/21: Tornado #4, County #1/1, EF-1, Monroe, 2021:004].
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$10,000	The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that dozens of trees were down in the Bolingbroke area. A number of power lines were also down and power was out throughout the area. The Emergency Management Director indicated that it was possible that a tornado had touched down in the area. Although National Weather Service damage surveys conducted in the region could not confirm a tornado touchdown, National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a definite mesocyclone circulation in the area at the time of the damage reports. Several trees and power lines were down on Zebulon Road and Estes Road in Bolingbroke. A few trees and power lines were also down in the Juliette area of northeast Monroe county along the Jones county line.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$3,000	The Forsyth County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees and some power lines were blown down in the Bolingbroke area.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$2,000	Em reports two trees down in bolingbroke along hwy 75 and dixie hwy.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$1,000	Tree downed in 200 block of franklin rd.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$1,000	The Monroe County 911 Center reported that four trees were blown down in the far southern portion of the county.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$1,000	Monroe county 911 reported power lines were blown down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked several trees down.
November 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$1,000	no account filed
March 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$500	Amateur radio operators reported a large tree blown down on Pea Ridge Road near I-475.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$500	A few trees were downed along I-75 by thunderstorm winds.
June 2019	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	The Monroe County Emergency Manager reported quarter size hail in Bolingbroke.
January 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	-	The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that several large trees were down in the Bolingbroke area.
December 2005	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that nickel-sized hail covered the ground on I-75 in the Bolingbroke area. The interstate became a parking lot as three accidents evolved during the hail storm. There were no injuries.
December 2005	Funnel Cloud	Bolingbroke	-	The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that a funnel cloud had been observed 1/2 mile south of Bolingbroke on I-475.
July 2002	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	The public reported that dime to nickel size hail covered the ground.
July 2002	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	The public and an amateur radio operator reported dime to quarter size hail.
January 1999	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	The public reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 1997	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	Dime sized hail covered the ground near the Monroe/ Bibb county line.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Smarr	4.9 miles	10
Parker (historical)	4.9 miles	12
Dames Ferry	6.5 miles	11
Star Mills	8.0 miles	14
Bamah (historical)	8.2 miles	10
Maynard	8.6 miles	14
Forsyth	9.3 miles	14
Spring Hill (historical)	9.6 miles	10

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 Bolingbroke	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4939464	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 354808. 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.