Mimsville, Georgia

8 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 39837. The Survey maps it on the Bethany quadrangle.

Mimsville within Baker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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
1974 USGS Bethany quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Mimsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 606 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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	91
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
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
19 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BAKER-004
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BAKER-003
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	9.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mimsville in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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
January 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Mimsville	$50,000	An EF1 tornado touched down near Albany Highway and Kimbrel Road in eastern Miller County. The tornado traveled northeast, doing heavy damage to trees in along the path. A home and outbuildings were damaged near Highway 200 in Baker County before the tornado lifted. Max winds were estimated at 105 mph. Damage was estimated.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mimsville	$3,000	Around 40 trees were blown down across a large swath of Baker county.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mimsville	$1,000	A tree was blown down on Highway 200. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mimsville	-	Two trees were blown down in Baker County.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mimsville	-	A tree was blown down on Josuli Road.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mimsville	-	Trees were blown down on Highway 200.
March 2012	Heavy Rain	Mimsville	-	A storm total of 5.11 inches was measured at the Ichawaynochaway creek near Elmodel.

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
Hoggard Mill	4.1 miles	9
Hawkinstown	4.2 miles	9
Cheevertown (historical)	4.5 miles	8
Bethany	5.2 miles	8
Dewsville (historical)	5.7 miles	8
Elmodel	6.9 miles	9
Crestview	7.2 miles	8
Lamar	8.2 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326399. 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.