BlockColomokee, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Blakely census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39823. The Survey maps it on the Blakely North quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Blakely North quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
158 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Colomokee between 1992 and 2019, burning about 490 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 | 97 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-EARLY-006 |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020EARLY003 |
| 30 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 4.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020EARLY011 |
| 26 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-CLAY-003 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colomokee in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Colomokee | - | Several secondary roads were flooded in Early county. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Colomokee | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferrell Crossroads | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Bancroft | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Blakely | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Urquhart | 7.0 miles | 7 | |
| Pleasant Hill (historical) | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Rowena | 10.4 miles | 8 | |
| Luke | 10.6 miles | 9 | |
| Crossroads | 11.2 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331439. 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.