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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.

Offerman within Pierce County

Population over time

3 figures

Offerman 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.

YearPeople Change
2000403
2010441+38 (+9%)
2020450+9 (+2%)

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.

Fires near this place

307 since 1992

Regional 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 burning180
Arson/incendiarism36
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural17
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking3

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
5 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Debris and open burning10 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PIERCE-017
26 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PIERCE-013
24 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2002Thunderstorm WindOfferman$100,000Numerous trees down on north end of town. Numerous mobile homes and houses damaged. Several houses had roofs torn off them.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindOfferman$60,000Large tree down on mobile home destroying it. Highway 84 and Railroad Lane.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindOfferman-A home had roof damage.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindOfferman-A home had roof damage.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindOfferman-Trees and power lines were blown down across the county. A large tree fell on a home in Offerman.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindOfferman-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 2002HailOfferman-Hail covered ground to a depth of three inches.

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Patterson2.1 miles7
Aspinwall3.7 miles7
Zirkle (historical)5.2 miles8
Otter Creek6.0 miles8
Bristol6.1 miles7
Owen6.1 miles8
Mershon8.6 miles7
Walkersville8.8 miles7

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 OffermanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2677412The 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.