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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.

Mendes within Tattnall County

Population over time

2 figures

Mendes 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.

YearPeople Change
2010122
2020124+2 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

266 since 1992

Regional 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 burning169
Arson/incendiarism39
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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
8 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-TATTNALL-011
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TATTNALL012
24 September 2019Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TATTNALL009
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2006Debris and open burning6.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tattnall County

Storms near this place

27 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Flash FloodMendes$20,000A Tattnall County emergency manager reported a road collapse due to floodwaters along Harmony Church Road.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindMendes$15,000Strong 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 2013Thunderstorm WindMendes$3,000Several trees were reported down on Harmony Church Road.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMendes$3,000Trees and power lines were reported down in Mendes.
December 2009Thunderstorm WindMendes$1,000Law enforcement reported one tree down along the intersection of Loves Chapel Road and Peggy Garrison Road.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMendes$1,000Trees down across Route 169.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMendes$500One tree was reported down near the intersection of Highway 23 and Bobby Speer Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMendes-Tattnall County dispatch reported several trees down in the vicinity of the intersection of Loves Chapel Road and Martin J Durrence Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMendes-Tattnall County Emergency Management reported a tree down on Highway 169 in Mendes.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMendes-Tattnall County Emergency Management reported a tree down in the 800 block of Love Rogers Road.
June 2024HailMendes-A COOP observer reported quarter size hail.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMendes-Tattnall County dispatch reported two trees down near the intersection of Stoney Hill Road and Romie Waters Highway.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMendes-Tattnall County dispatch reported a tree down along Mendes Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMendes-A trained spotter reported several trees down across Highway 169 near the intersection of Highway 57.
February 2016Flash FloodMendes-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 2014Thunderstorm WindMendes-The Tattnal County Dispatch reported several trees down near Mendes off Highway 169.
June 2012HailMendes-A trained spotter reported 1 inch hail.
June 2012HailMendes-The public reported 1.75 inch hail.
June 2011HailMendes-The public reported golfball size hail off Mendes Highway.
June 2011HailMendes-The Department of Highways reported nickel size hail.
June 2011HailMendes-Law enforcement reported quarter size hail near the Tattnall county high school.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindMendes-Numerous trees were knocked down across the county.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Mendes-A tornado touched down briefly along Highway 121 knocking trees down across the highway.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindMendes-Several trees and large limbs were down.
May 2003Flash FloodMendes-Flooding took place on Highway 169 that caused it to become impassable for a while.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindMendes-Large tree limbsdown.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMendes-Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Tattnall 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
Purvis (historical)0.2 miles19
Lynn1.9 miles17
Bradleys (historical)2.7 miles9
Kicklighter (historical)3.6 miles17
Birdford (historical)4.5 miles17
Midway4.8 miles19
Tison4.8 miles8
Glennville4.9 miles17

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 MendesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5638736The 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.