Offerman, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Patterson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31557. The Survey maps it on the Screven quadrangle. 450 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresOfferman grew from 403 to 450 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 403 | |
| 2010 | 441 | +38 (+9%) |
| 2020 | 450 | +9 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Screven quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
307 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Offerman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,072 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 36 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 | 180 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| 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 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2010 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-PIERCE-017 |
| 26 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-PIERCE-013 |
| 24 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Offerman in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerman | $100,000 | Numerous trees down on north end of town. Numerous mobile homes and houses damaged. Several houses had roofs torn off them. |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerman | $60,000 | Large tree down on mobile home destroying it. Highway 84 and Railroad Lane. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerman | - | A home had roof damage. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerman | - | A home had roof damage. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerman | - | Trees and power lines were blown down across the county. A large tree fell on a home in Offerman. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Offerman | - | Trees were blown down in a residential yard. Hail occurred, the size was unknown. The time of the event was based on radar imagery. |
| October 2002 | Hail | Offerman | - | Hail covered ground to a depth of three inches. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patterson | 2.1 miles | 7 | |
| Aspinwall | 3.7 miles | 7 | |
| Zirkle (historical) | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Otter Creek | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Bristol | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Owen | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Mershon | 8.6 miles | 7 | |
| Walkersville | 8.8 miles | 7 |
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 Offerman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2677412 | 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 332558. 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.




