Portal, Georgia Explained
| Official Name: | Portal, Georgia |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Mapsize: | 250px |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Georgia |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bulloch |
| Leader Title: | Billy Boggs (mayor) |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 5.35 |
| Area Land Km2: | 5.18 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.17 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 2.06 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 2.00 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.06 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 638 |
| Population Density Km2: | 123.09 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 318.84 |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Coordinates: | 32.5372°N -81.9317°W |
| Elevation M: | 90 |
| Elevation Ft: | 295 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 30450 |
| Area Code: | 912 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 13-62216[2] |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 0332735[3] |
Portal is a town in Bulloch County, Georgia, United States. The population was 638 in 2020.
History
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Portal as a town in 1914.[4] It is unknown why the name "Portal" was applied to this place.[5]
Geography
Portal is located at 32.5372°N -81.9317°W (32.537275, -81.931738).[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.6km2, of which 5.5km2 is land and 0.2km2, or 2.99%, is water.[7]
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 597 people, 232 households, and 167 families residing in the town. By 2020, its population increased to 638, experiencing no population change from 2010.
Notable people
- Brooks Brown (1985-), American professional baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). Brown attended Portal High School and played baseball there. He attended the University of Georgia, playing in college. He played for several minor league teams before being called up to the majors for the first time on July 6, 2014.
- Dr. Leila Denmark (1898–2012), a pediatrician, author and researcher who blazed trails for women in medicine, and lived to be 114
- Matthew L. Gibson (1985-), Science instructor emeritus at Portal High School and Curator of Natural History at the Charleston Museum, credited as America's First Museum.[8] Gibson also published a Journal of Paleontology articles which designate a new species of pontoporiid dolphin, Auroracetus bakerae as well as a new species of protocetid whale, Tupelocetus palmeri.[9] [10] [11] He is a research member of the Don Sundquist Center for Excellence in Paleontology.[12]
- Sebastian McBride, African-American man who was lynched by whites on August 27, 1904; the fourth lynching victim of white racial violence that month in Bulloch County[13]
- Cameron Sheffield (1988-), American football defensive end who is a member of the Edmonton Eskimos. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL draft.
- Ruby Stone (1924–2013), born in Portal and later moved to Idaho, where she became a politician and was elected as a state legislator.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files. United States Census Bureau. December 18, 2021.
- Web site: U.S. Census website. United States Census Bureau. January 31, 2008.
- Web site: US Board on Geographic Names. January 31, 2008. United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007.
- Book: Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia. 1914. J. Johnston. 1126.
- Book: Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins . Winship Press . Krakow, Kenneth K. . 1975 . Macon, GA . 180 . 0-915430-00-2.
- Web site: US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990. United States Census Bureau. April 23, 2011. February 12, 2011.
- Web site: Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Portal town, Georgia . dead . https://archive.today/20200212182508/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US1362216 . February 12, 2020 . November 7, 2013 . U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder.
- Web site: About - Staff Directory. The Charleston Museum.
- Web site: Auroracetus bakerae Gibson & Geisler 2009. ION: Index to Organism Names. Thomson Reuters. July 29, 2014. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20140729183051/http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid=4389115. July 29, 2014.
- A new pliocene dolphin (Cetacea: Pontoporiidae), from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29. 3. 966–971. 10.1671/039.029.0307. 2009. Gibson. Matthew L.. Geisler. Jonathan H.. 85706327.
- Matthew L. Gibson, John Mnieckowski & Jonathan H. Geisler (2018) Tupelocetus palmeri, a new species of protocetid whale (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the middle Eocene of South Carolina, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 38:6, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2018.1555165
- Web site: Members. East Tennessee State University & General Shale Natural History Museum Visitor Center and Gray Fossil Site. July 30, 2014.
- http://savannahnow.com/features/150years/1900industry.shtml Jenel Few, "Racial strife"
