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Farmdale, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sylvania census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. The Survey maps it on the Hunters quadrangle.

Farmdale within Screven County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

324 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 324 fires within 5 miles of Farmdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 919 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 33 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 burning187
Equipment and vehicle use39
Arson/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Smoking12
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning7.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SCREVEN004
25 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-035

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven County

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmdale in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2010Thunderstorm WindFarmdale$1,500Law Enforcement reported 3 trees down near the intersection of Best Bridge Road and Twin Oaks Road, 4 miles south of Sylvania, Georgia.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindFarmdale$1,000Screven County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Statesboro Highway and Hillcrest Drive.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindFarmdale$500A Tree was blown down along Savannah Highway, 5 miles south of Sylvania.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFarmdale-The Screven County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Halcyondale Road and Robbins Branch Road.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindFarmdale-Screven County dispatch reported a tree down along Burgest Freeman Road.
July 2008HailFarmdale-A trained weather spotter reported nickel size hail in Farmdale, Georgia.
July 2003Tornado (F2)Farmdale-A tornado knocked down numerous trees and power lines and overturned a car.

Every storm recorded in Screven 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Green Hill1.1 miles16
Altman2.1 miles16
White Hill2.4 miles16
Goloid3.3 miles16
Sylvania3.8 miles17
Resource3.8 miles17
Hunters4.4 miles16
Waters4.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331697. 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.