Brinson, Georgia
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Brinson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39825. The Survey maps it on the Brinson quadrangle. 217 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.
On record in Brinson
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
- Brinson Family Historic Districtlisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresBrinson grew from 215 to 217 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 | 215 | |
| 2020 | 217 | +2 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Brinson quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
243 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Brinson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 808 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 20 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 | 168 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019DECATUR002 |
| 22 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019DECATUR001 |
| 20 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-DECATUR-009 |
| 17 September 1992 | Smoking | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brinson in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brinson | $3,000 | Downed trees and power lines reported by Decatur County 911. |
| November 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brinson | $2,000 | An irrigation pivot flipped near Highway 84 and Highway 310. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brinson | $2,000 | A tree was blown down onto a power line. |
| November 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brinson | $1,000 | Fence damage occurred in Brinson. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brinson | $1,000 | Numerous downed trees reported by the Decatur County EMS. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brinson | - | A tree was blown down along Brindon and Cofty Road. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brinson | - | The Decatur County Sheriff reported numerous pecan trees uprooted. |
| August 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Brinson | - | A small tornado briefly touched down just south of Brinson. It moved north and crossed U.S. Highway 84 near Spring Creek Road. No damage was reported by the public. |
| February 2000 | Hail | Brinson | - | Quarter size hail reported by the Decatur County EMA. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyrene | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Hanover | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Smiths Landing | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Ausmac | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Eldorendo | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Lynn | 6.5 miles | 12 | |
| Bethany | 8.3 miles | 11 | |
| West Bainbridge | 8.9 miles | 12 |
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 Brinson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2142024 | 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 354857. 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.






