Edman, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Woodbury census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30293. It stands on Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gay quadrangle.

Edman within Meriwether County

On record in Edman

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Red Oak Creek Covered Bridgelisted 1973 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Gay quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Edman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 711 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 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	116
Arson/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2001	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MERIWETHER-003
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MERIWETHER-011
4 August 2012	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-MERIWETHER-005
24 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Edman: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Flat Shoals Prospect	Granite	Occurrence
	Molina Sand Co--Lawrence Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Meriwether County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edman in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Edman	$4,000	The Meriwether County 911 center reported a few trees blown down from southeast of Gay to east of Luthersville. One tree fell onto the covered bridge over Red Oak Creek along Covered Bridge Road.
March 2023	Flash Flood	Edman	-	The Emergency Manager reported Covered Bridge Road near Red Oak Creek flooded. In addition to the 1.5 inches of rain that fell the previous day, radar estimates indicate that an additional 6 to 8 inches fell on March 26, resulting in the flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Meriwether 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
Imlac	0.8 miles	8
Carrolls	1.7 miles	8
Woodbury	3.8 miles	22
Gay	4.0 miles	8
McLendon Crossroads	4.5 miles	22
Oakland	5.2 miles	8
Betts	6.0 miles	22
Andrews Crossroads	6.3 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331637. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.