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.
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
- Russell Homeplace Historic Districtlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresRussell 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,203 | |
| 2020 | 1,322 | +119 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Winder South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
126 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 49 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2008 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-BARROW-002 |
| 17 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2008 | Natural | 3.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2018Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Russell | $20,000 | The 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 2018 | Hail | Russell | - | The Barrow County Emergency Manager relayed several reports of quarter to ping pong ball size hail in the Winder area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winder | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Barrow Heights | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Bethlehem | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Whistleville | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Cedar Hill | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Mulberry | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Statham | 5.6 miles | 18 | |
| Carl | 6.2 miles | 15 |
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 Russell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6113768 | 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 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.







