Garfield, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Twin City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30425. It stands on Open Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garfield quadrangle. 257 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 279 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGarfield grew from 201 to 257 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 201 | |
| 2020 | 257 | +56 (+28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
193 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Garfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,212 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 22 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 | 129 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-EMANUEL-015 |
| 28 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-EMANUEL-006 |
| 19 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-EMANUEL-005 |
| 11 September 2010 | Natural | 13 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-JENKINS-003 |
| 11 September 2010 | Natural | 7.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-EMANUEL-010 |
| 1 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-EMANUEL-014 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garfield in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2018 | Flash Flood | Garfield | 2 hurt, $50,000 | Fire Chief reported failure of a small dam, washing out a 20 foot section of Gray Mule Farm Road near Johnson Gay Road in Garfield. The dam was located about 0.45 miles northeast of the washout location, embedded within woods. Two people were injured when a pickup truck encountered the washed out section of the road. One was air lifted to Augusta with serious injuries. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | $7,000 | The Emanuel County 911 center reported trees blown down across the county from Garfield to south of Swainsboro. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | $3,000 | Augusta television stations reported that several large trees were down on Georgia Highway 23 between Garfield and Twin City in the far eastern part of the county. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | $1,000 | Tree down at Old Garfield Rd and Old Boatright Rd. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | $1,000 | The Emanuel County 911 center reported a tree blown down on Canoochee Garfield Road. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2013 | Hail | Garfield | - | The public reported hail up to the size of pennies near Garfield. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canoochee | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Twin City | 5.5 miles | 7 | |
| Durdenville | 9.3 miles | 7 | |
| Blun | 11.1 miles | 8 | |
| Modoc | 11.2 miles | 8 | |
| Summertown | 11.5 miles | 8 | |
| Stevens Crossing | 11.9 miles | 7 | |
| Three Points | 12.1 miles | 8 |
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 Garfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3261379 | 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 331791. 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.





