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Bronwood, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bronwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39826. The Survey maps it on the Bronwood quadrangle. 334 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 367 feet above sea level.

Bronwood within Terrell County

On record in Bronwood

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

Bronwood grew from 225 to 334 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
2010225
2020334+109 (+48%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Bronwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 624 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning72
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking12
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TERRELL002
5 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TERRELL-002
23 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1995Natural1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Terrell County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronwood in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
October 1997Thunderstorm WindBronwood$50,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines with several outages reported in Bronwood and Dawson.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBronwood$20,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in Bronwood. The media also reported trees were down on houses. Monetary damage was estimated.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindBronwood$3,000Fallen and leaning trees and limbs resulted in power outages near Bronwood.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBronwood$3,000Several trees were blown down on Highway 118 between Dawson and Bronwood. Media reports indicate that trees were blocking the roadway.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindBronwood-Trees were blown down in Bronwood.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBronwood-Trees were blown down on Highway 118 between Bronwood and Dawson.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBronwood-A tree was blown down near Bronwood.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBronwood-A tree was blown down along Highway 118 near James Webb Road.
June 2007HailBronwood-Quarter size hail was observed in Bronwood.
June 2007HailBronwood-Tennis ball size hail was observed in Bronwood.

Every storm recorded in Terrell 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
Olivers Mill3.2 miles7
Pleasant Hill3.9 miles7
Bridges Crossroad4.5 miles7
Belmont (historical)5.1 miles7
Yeomans5.4 miles7
Oakville5.5 miles7
Dawson5.9 miles7
Cottondale6.6 miles7

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 BronwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2439391The 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 354864. 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.