Mendes, Georgia
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Glennville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30427. The Survey maps it on the Glennville quadrangle. 124 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 180 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMendes grew from 122 to 124 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 | 122 | |
| 2020 | 124 | +2 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1920 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
266 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Mendes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,134 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 39 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 | 169 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
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 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-TATTNALL-011 |
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020TATTNALL012 |
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020TATTNALL009 |
| 24 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 6.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mendes in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Mendes | $20,000 | A Tattnall County emergency manager reported a road collapse due to floodwaters along Harmony Church Road. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | $15,000 | Strong winds associated with a thunderstorm shifted a double-wide mobile home a few feet off its foundation. Also, the winds tore the siding off an outbuilding and snapped off, uprooted, or broke off large branches from approximately two dozen trees. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | $3,000 | Several trees were reported down on Harmony Church Road. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down in Mendes. |
| December 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | $1,000 | Law enforcement reported one tree down along the intersection of Loves Chapel Road and Peggy Garrison Road. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | $1,000 | Trees down across Route 169. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | $500 | One tree was reported down near the intersection of Highway 23 and Bobby Speer Road. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | - | Tattnall County dispatch reported several trees down in the vicinity of the intersection of Loves Chapel Road and Martin J Durrence Road. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | - | Tattnall County Emergency Management reported a tree down on Highway 169 in Mendes. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | - | Tattnall County Emergency Management reported a tree down in the 800 block of Love Rogers Road. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Mendes | - | A COOP observer reported quarter size hail. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | - | Tattnall County dispatch reported two trees down near the intersection of Stoney Hill Road and Romie Waters Highway. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | - | Tattnall County dispatch reported a tree down along Mendes Road. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | - | A trained spotter reported several trees down across Highway 169 near the intersection of Highway 57. |
| February 2016 | Flash Flood | Mendes | - | The Tattnall County 911 Call Center reported Andron Tootle Road closed and Eli Kennedy Road closed near the intersection with Joe Kennedy Road due to flooding. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | - | The Tattnal County Dispatch reported several trees down near Mendes off Highway 169. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Mendes | - | A trained spotter reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Mendes | - | The public reported 1.75 inch hail. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Mendes | - | The public reported golfball size hail off Mendes Highway. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Mendes | - | The Department of Highways reported nickel size hail. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Mendes | - | Law enforcement reported quarter size hail near the Tattnall county high school. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | - | Numerous trees were knocked down across the county. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Mendes | - | A tornado touched down briefly along Highway 121 knocking trees down across the highway. |
| February 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | - | Several trees and large limbs were down. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Mendes | - | Flooding took place on Highway 169 that caused it to become impassable for a while. |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | - | Large tree limbsdown. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendes | - | Trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purvis (historical) | 0.2 miles | 19 | |
| Lynn | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Bradleys (historical) | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Kicklighter (historical) | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Birdford (historical) | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Midway | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Tison | 4.8 miles | 8 | |
| Glennville | 4.9 miles | 17 |
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 Mendes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5638736 | 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 332372. 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.









