Elmodel, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Newton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39870. The Survey maps it on the Elmodel quadrangle. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Elmodel within Baker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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
1956 USGS Newton quadrangle1:62500
1974 USGS Elmodel quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Elmodel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 776 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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	87
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BAKER-002
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	9.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BAKER-005
17 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-BAKER-004
1 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Storms near this place

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmodel in 15 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	$3,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down across the county.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	$3,000	The Mitchell EMC power company reported power outages all due to high winds in portions of Baker and Dougherty counties.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	$2,000	Several trees and utility poles were down.
June 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Elmodel	$1,000	A short lived tornado was captured by storm chaser video as it crossed farmland in northern Baker County, GA north of Clear Lake Road. The tornado flipped an irrigation pivot as it touched down and then snapped and uprooted several trees along its path before lifting west of Halls Pond. Damage associated with this tornado is consistent with EF-1 damage with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	$500	The Georgia DOT reported a few downed trees on County Road 126.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	-	Trees were blown down onto Jericho Road.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	-	Two trees were blown down along Jericho Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	-	Trees were blown down along Highway 37.
November 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	-	A tree was blown down on Jericho Road.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	-	A tree was down on the southbound side of Highway 45 in Baker County.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	-	A tree was blown down on Highway 37 near Newton.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	-	Several trees were blown down in the area.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	-	Trees were blown down on Joe Heard Road.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	-	Trees were blown down at Rentz Bridge.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Elmodel	-	Trees were blown down on Pine Hill Road.

Every storm recorded in Baker 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
Dewsville (historical)	3.0 miles	8
Milford	4.5 miles	8
Patmos	5.3 miles	8
Hawkinstown	5.8 miles	9
Iveys Mill	6.8 miles	8
Mimsville	6.9 miles	8
Bethany	7.2 miles	8
Newton	7.6 miles	10

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 Elmodel	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5366863	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 331656. 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.