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.
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
- Bronwood Calabooselisted 1982
- Martin Elementary Schoollisted 2008
Population over time
2 figuresBronwood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 225 | |
| 2020 | 334 | +109 (+48%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Bronwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
111 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 72 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020TERRELL002 |
| 5 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-TERRELL-002 |
| 23 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 1995 | Natural | 1.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | 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
10 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronwood | $50,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines with several outages reported in Bronwood and Dawson. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronwood | $20,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down in Bronwood. The media also reported trees were down on houses. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronwood | $3,000 | Fallen and leaning trees and limbs resulted in power outages near Bronwood. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronwood | $3,000 | Several trees were blown down on Highway 118 between Dawson and Bronwood. Media reports indicate that trees were blocking the roadway. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronwood | - | Trees were blown down in Bronwood. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronwood | - | Trees were blown down on Highway 118 between Bronwood and Dawson. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronwood | - | A tree was blown down near Bronwood. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronwood | - | A tree was blown down along Highway 118 near James Webb Road. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bronwood | - | Quarter size hail was observed in Bronwood. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bronwood | - | Tennis ball size hail was observed in Bronwood. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olivers Mill | 3.2 miles | 7 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 3.9 miles | 7 | |
| Bridges Crossroad | 4.5 miles | 7 | |
| Belmont (historical) | 5.1 miles | 7 | |
| Yeomans | 5.4 miles | 7 | |
| Oakville | 5.5 miles | 7 | |
| Dawson | 5.9 miles | 7 | |
| Cottondale | 6.6 miles | 7 |
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 Bronwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2439391 | 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 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.




