Colbert, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Colbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30628. The Survey maps it on the Danielsville South quadrangle. 630 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Colbert within Madison County

On record in Colbert

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

Colbert Historic Districtlisted 1984
Colbert Schoollisted 2001

Population over time

2 figures

Colbert grew from 592 to 630 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	592
2020	630	+38 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Danielsville quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Danielsville South quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

246 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 246 fires within 5 miles of Colbert between 1992 and 2019, burning about 422 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 16 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	143
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Smoking	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Arson/incendiarism	16
Natural	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MADISON-009
7 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colbert in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
September 2004	Tornado (F1)	Colbert	$1,300,000	A damage assessment conducted by the National Weather Service and the Madison County Emergency Management Director concluded that a 7-mile long path, 150-yard wide, F1 tornado with near 100 mph winds was spawned by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ivan causing major damage to several large homes in a country club, along with extensive damage to trees and power lines along its path. The tornado began just south of Georgia Highway 72, just east of Colbert, near the intersection of Walnut Grove Church Road and Kingston Road and continued moving north-northwest around 40 mph, terminating near the Madison County High School on Georgia Highway 98, just west of Danielsville. The most significant damage occurred along the southern part of the storm's path in the Kingston Road Subdivision/Country Club. Here, around five homes sustained major to extensive damage, while approximately another 20 homes sustained minor to moderate damage. In addition, widespread damage to trees and power lines was observed along the path of the tornado. Damage to the windward side of the roofs on several homes was consistent with a tornado circulation.
July 1999	Flash Flood	Colbert	$25,000	A newspaper reported that heavy rain caused the roof at the Comer Medical Clinic to collapse. Basements of homes were flooded in the Colbert area. A culvert was washed out on the Shoal Creek Road. Around 4 inches of rain fell during the afternoon, causing the damage.
November 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Colbert	$4,000	The Madison County 911 center reported 4 trees blown down between Colbert and Carlton across the southern portion of the county.
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Colbert	$3,000	The Madison county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down across Georgia Highway 72 between Hull and Colbert. In addition, some road construction barrels were also blown over in the same area.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Colbert	$1,000	The Madison County 911 Center reported that a tree was down on a power line in Colbert.
December 2005	Hail	Colbert	-	The public reported that nickel-sized hail covered the ground.
July 2002	Hail	Colbert	-	The public reported dime size hail.
May 1999	Hail	Colbert	-	Madison county 911 reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Patterson	1.8 miles	14
Dowdy (historical)	3.6 miles	14
Diamond Hill	3.9 miles	14
Diamond Rock (historical)	4.4 miles	14
Hull	4.6 miles	14
Comer	5.0 miles	14
Gholston Stand Crossroads	5.2 miles	14
Dogsboro	5.5 miles	14

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 Colbert	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2754315	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 355230. 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.