Pembroke, Georgia
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pembroke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31321. The Survey maps it on the Lanier quadrangle. 2,513 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 92 feet above sea level.
On record in Pembroke
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
Bryan County Courthouselisted 1995- Pembroke Historic Districtlisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresPembroke grew from 2,196 to 2,513 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 | 2,196 | |
| 2020 | 2,513 | +317 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1920 USGS Pembroke quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Pembroke quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Pembroke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Lanier quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
3 photographs, 1941Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Delano, Jack, 1941. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1941. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1941. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
386 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 386 fires within 5 miles of Pembroke between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,902 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 125 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 | 212 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 125 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 6.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020BRYAN NORTH003 |
| 30 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
49 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pembroke in 49 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 32 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 deaths and 17 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1998 | Tornado (F3) | Pembroke | 2 killed, 16 hurt, $2,200,000 | Tornado first touched down just northeast of Pembroke and then crossed I-16 at the Olive Branch Road overpass (about 2 miles west of exit 29) then continued northeast. Significant damage occurred in the Olive Branch Rd. area and also just north of Blitchton, where a 38 year-old female and a 41 year old male were killed along with 15 injured. There were seventy-four (74) homes and other buildiings damaged, with fourteen of those destroyed (6 mobile homes, two frame houses, two brick homes, and four other buildings. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off 10 to 15 feet above the ground. |
| September 2000 | Lightning | Pembroke | 1 hurt | Lightning struck the chief of police as he attempted to unplug several computers during a thunderstorm. The lightning strike blew the sockets off the walls, broke a water line, and damaged the station's phones, fax, and computers. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $10,000 | Many trees were reported down in Pembroke along with widespread Power Outages. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $5,000 | Several large trees were downed along Georgia Highway 119. |
| October 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $5,000 | Several large trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds along Georgia Highway 119. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $3,000 | Several trees down on Ashbranch Road, Sims Road and Strickland Street. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down 5 trees across the northern part of the county. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $2,000 | Trees down on Lanier St, Harry Hagan Street. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $1,000 | Law enforcement reported a tree down and blocking Georgia Edwards Road in Pembroke, Georgia. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $1,000 | Tree down on Route 67. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $500 | Law enforcement reported multiple large tree limbs down across Route 67 near Floyd Road, 3 miles northwest of Pembroke, Georgia. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $500 | One tree was reported down on Bacon Road. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | $500 | Three large trees were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Bryan County dispatch reported a tree down on a house along Warnell Street in Pembroke. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Bryan County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 19 and George Edwards Road. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | The Bryan County 911 Call Center reported trees down on Bacontown Road, Clayton Road, and Strickland Road in Pembroke. |
| January 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | A picture shared by the local media on social media showed a pine tree snapped on Camelia Drive. |
| January 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | A trained spotter reported trees and power lines down near Bedingfield Drive. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Pembroke | - | A report on social media indicated penny size hail. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Pembroke | - | A trained weather spotter reported half dollar size hail in Pembroke, Georgia. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Pembroke | - | A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail fell for about 1 minute in Pembroke, Georgia. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Pembroke | - | The broadcast media reported penny size hail in Pembroke, Georgia. |
| October 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Pembroke | - | The public reported a funnel cloud over Pembroke, Georgia. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Two-inch diameter limbs were reported down. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Pembroke | - | A nearly stationary thunderstorm dropped torrential rainfall for several hours on Pembroke and surrounding areas. A spotter in the area recorded 7.85 inches of rain. This led to extensive flooding of roads with Highways 67 and 119 being closed. A creek in the town also flooded. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines. |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked trees and large limbs down. |
| February 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Several trees were down. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and signs along highway 204. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and large limbs. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Several trees were down. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Trees and large limbs were down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Several trees were down on state road 119. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Large limbs and power lines down. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Several trees down. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | Trees down. |
| October 1995 | Hail | Pembroke | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Pembroke | - | no account filed |
| January 2006 | Hail | Pembroke | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Pembroke | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Pembroke | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Pembroke | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Pembroke | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Pembroke | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Pembroke | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembroke | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Pembroke | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q958219 | 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 332632. 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.









