Portal, Georgia

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. It is unknown why the name "Portal" was applied to this place.

Geography
Portal is located at 32.53722°N, -81.93167°W (32.537275, -81.931738). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.6 km2, of which 5.5 km2 is land and 0.2 km2, or 2.99%, is water.

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. 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.  He is a research member of the Don Sundquist Center for Excellence in Paleontology.
 * 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
 * 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.