Coleman, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cuthbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39836. The Survey maps it on the Coleman quadrangle. 116 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Coleman within Randolph County

Population over time

3 figures

Coleman fell from 149 to 116 between 2000 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
2000	149
2010	127	-22 (-15%)
2020	116	-11 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Coleman quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Coleman between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,060 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 5 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	94
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
7 September 1997	Natural	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-RANDOLPH-006
28 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	3.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2019	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020RANDOLPH004
13 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coleman in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Coleman	$3,000	Numerous power lines were blown down due to high winds south of Coleman.
May 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Coleman	$2,000	Damage consisted primarily of minor tree damage. A single family home suffered minor roof damage, and a carport collapsed along Fountain Bridge Road. This tornado was rated EF0 with peak winds estimated near 80 mph. Damage cost was estimated.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Coleman	$1,000	A couple of trees were blown down near Coleman.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Coleman	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew a few trees down across power lines along Georgia Highway 266.
June 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Coleman	-	A tornado touched down west of Blakely, GA and traversed mainly rural terrain across Early, Clay, and Randolph Counties. The tornado was observed at multiple locations by trained spotters and the public throughout its path. The storm snapped or uprooted numerous pine trees northwest of Blakely. Tree damage continued into Clay County but didn't affect any major roadways. The tornado crossed GA-266 near Coleman in Randolph County. Minor structural damage was noted to a few residences and pump houses near US-82 and Reid Station Road west of Cuthbert. Numerous trees were snapped in this area, some blocking US-82. Some further tree damage was reported north of the highway before the tornado lifted.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Coleman	-	The public submitted an mping report of wind damage. Tree limbs blown down or shingle damage was reported.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Coleman	-	A few trees were blown down in southwestern Randolph county.
April 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Coleman	-	This tornado initially touched down in extreme southern Randolph county before moving into Clay county and eventually Calhoun county. Damage in Randolph county was limited to trees. The Randolph county portion of this track was rated EF0.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bass Store	3.5 miles	7
Blackburns Store (historical)	3.9 miles	7
Grubb (historical)	6.2 miles	7
Carnegie	6.2 miles	7
Coles	6.3 miles	7
Peterson Hill	7.8 miles	7
Shivers Mill	7.9 miles	7
Cuthbert	8.6 miles	7

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 Coleman	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2611430	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 312820. 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.