Patmos, 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 39862. It stands on Alligator Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leary quadrangle.

Patmos 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 Leary quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Patmos between 1992 and 2019, burning about 374 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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	65
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	6
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BAKER-002
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-BAKER-001
1 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2016	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BAKER-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patmos in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Patmos	$10,000	Several downed trees along Phillipsburg Road. One tree fell and damaged a pickup truck. Reported by the Camilla Enterprise.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Patmos	$3,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Patmos	-	Trees were blown down at Patmos.
December 2018	Flood	Patmos	-	Flooding was reported on Milford Road due to the Ichawaynochaway Creek.

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
Milford	1.2 miles	8
Iveys Mill	1.5 miles	8
Dewsville (historical)	3.3 miles	8
Crestview	4.1 miles	8
Bethany	5.1 miles	8
Jones Spur	5.1 miles	8
Elmodel	5.3 miles	9
Mimsville	8.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326455. 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.