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Russell, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Winder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30680. The Survey maps it on the Winder South quadrangle. 1,322 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 980 feet above sea level.

Russell within Barrow County

On record in Russell

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

Russell grew from 1,203 to 1,322 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
20101,203
20201,322+119 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Russell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 25 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 burning49
Arson/incendiarism25
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking3
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
7 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BARROW-002
17 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2008Natural3.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barrow County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Russell in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindRussell$20,000The Barrow County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down and damage to a home near the intersection of Ode Peppers Road and Jackson Trail.
July 2018HailRussell-The Barrow County Emergency Manager relayed several reports of quarter to ping pong ball size hail in the Winder area.

Every storm recorded in Barrow 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
Winder1.4 miles17
Barrow Heights2.5 miles17
Bethlehem3.3 miles17
Whistleville4.5 miles18
Cedar Hill4.6 miles15
Mulberry4.6 miles15
Statham5.6 miles18
Carl6.2 miles15

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 RussellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6113768The 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 332944. 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.