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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.

Brinson within Decatur County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Brinson 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.

YearPeople Change
2010215
2020217+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

243 since 1992

Regional 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 burning168
Equipment and vehicle use32
Arson/incendiarism20
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural5
Smoking5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
23 September 2018Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019DECATUR002
22 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019DECATUR001
20 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning5.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DECATUR-009
17 September 1992Smoking1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBrinson$3,000Downed trees and power lines reported by Decatur County 911.
November 2025Thunderstorm WindBrinson$2,000An irrigation pivot flipped near Highway 84 and Highway 310.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBrinson$2,000A tree was blown down onto a power line.
November 2025Thunderstorm WindBrinson$1,000Fence damage occurred in Brinson.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBrinson$1,000Numerous downed trees reported by the Decatur County EMS.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBrinson-A tree was blown down along Brindon and Cofty Road.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindBrinson-The Decatur County Sheriff reported numerous pecan trees uprooted.
August 2005Tornado (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 2000HailBrinson-Quarter size hail reported by the Decatur County EMA.

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
Cyrene2.6 miles11
Hanover5.3 miles11
Smiths Landing5.7 miles11
Ausmac6.2 miles12
Eldorendo6.5 miles8
Lynn6.5 miles12
Bethany8.3 miles11
West Bainbridge8.9 miles12

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 BrinsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2142024The 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.