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Bowersville, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Bowersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30516. The Survey maps it on the Royston quadrangle. 444 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Bowersville within Hart County

On record in Bowersville

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bowersville fell from 465 to 444 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
2010465
2020444-21 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Bowersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 380 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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 burning136
Equipment and vehicle use31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism13
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Smoking9
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019FRANKLIN001
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN006
23 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HART-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Bowersville: 9 past producers, 6 occurrences, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hays PropertyGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Unknown, ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Unknown/Bowers PropertiesGoldPast ProducerVein
Winter PropertyGoldProspectPlacer
Banister MineMicaPast Producer
Garner MineMicaPast Producer
Green Rose MineMicaPast Producer
Hartwell Quarry & MillMicaPlant1919
Highway DepositsMicaOccurrence
Horse Head MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowersville in 17 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindBowersville$50,000Emergency manager and utility company reported multiple trees and power lines blown down throughout Hart County. A chicken house was also destroyed.
June 2001LightningBowersville$15,000Lightning traveled down two trees and killed 29 cows. Mother cows were laying with their legs sticking straight up in the air.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindBowersville$1,000Trees and powerlines were blown down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBowersville-County comms reported numerous trees blown down across the northern part of the county.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBowersville-County comms reported numerous trees and some power lines blown down across Hart County.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBowersville-County comms reported several trees blown down in the Bowersville area.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBowersville-County comms reported trees blown down along Lankford Rd.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBowersville-County comms reported a few trees and large limbs blown down around Bowersvile.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBowersville-FD reported multiple trees blown down along Highway 17 near Bowersville.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindBowersville-Multiple trees were blown down across Hart County.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBowersville-Multiple trees were blown down across the county.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindBowersville-A tree was blown down in the Bowersville area. Another tree was blown down in the Goldmine area with a third blown down along highway 172 south of Hartwell.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBowersville-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down, along with several power poles.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBowersville-Some trees were blown down.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBowersville-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
February 2000Thunderstorm WindBowersville-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBowersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Canon2.3 miles14
Cross Roads3.5 miles15
Flat Shoals5.2 miles13
Shoal Creek5.3 miles15
Mount Olivet5.5 miles14
Parkertown Mill6.0 miles15
Goldmine6.0 miles14
Royston6.1 miles14

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 BowersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2032239The 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 331215. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.