Hoggard Mill, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Milford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39870. The Survey maps it on the Hopeful quadrangle.

Hoggard Mill within Baker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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
1971 USGS Hopeful quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Hoggard Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 790 acres in total. 3 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	90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	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
5 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-BAKER-003
26 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-BAKER-002
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BAKER-003
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-MILLER-002
6 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MILLER-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Storms near this place

13 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoggard Mill in 13 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoggard Mill	$50,000	A mobile home near GA HWY 253 in extreme southern Baker county near the Decatur county border was blown over by thunderstorm winds. Some other light damage to nearby trees and outbuildings also occurred. Winds were estimated between 70 and 75 mph based on the damage. Monetary damage was estimated.
December 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoggard Mill	$10,000	Numerous trees were blown down and two storage sheds were destroyed on State Highway 253 near the Baker-Decatur County line.
September 2004	Tornado (F1)	Hoggard Mill	$10,000	Trees were uprooted and twisted. Power lines were knocked down. Reported by the Baker County EMA.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoggard Mill	$4,000	Trees and power lines were blown down. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoggard Mill	$3,000	The Baker county 911 dispatch reported trees down along Highway 253. Monetary damage was estimated.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoggard Mill	-	A tree was blown down onto Highway 91 South in Baker county.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoggard Mill	-	Large tree limbs were blown down on Highway 253 near Mile Post 2.3 and blocked the road.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoggard Mill	-	Trees were blown down on Hoggard Mill Road.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoggard Mill	-	Trees were blown down at the Jones Center.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoggard Mill	-	Trees were blown down at Vernon Hall.
March 2012	Heavy Rain	Hoggard Mill	-	A storm total of 4.20 inches was measured at the Ichawaynochaway creek below Newton.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hoggard Mill	-	Several trees were blown down along State Highway 311.
March 2011	Hail	Hoggard Mill	-	no account filed

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
Cheevertown (historical)	3.1 miles	8
Hawkinstown	3.4 miles	9
Mimsville	4.1 miles	8
Lamar	5.4 miles	9
Elmodel	8.9 miles	9
Dewsville (historical)	8.9 miles	8
Bethany	9.3 miles	8
Newton	9.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122572536

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 342837. 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.