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Philomath, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Maxeys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30660. The Survey maps it on the Philomath quadrangle.

Philomath within Oglethorpe County

On record in Philomath

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Philomath between 1992 and 2019, burning about 300 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 12 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 burning47
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-OGLETHORPE-010
9 September 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-GREENE-012
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-OGLETHORPE-003
27 September 2016Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-OGLETHORPE-002
14 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oglethorpe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Philomath: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ga Manganese Co Mine/Taliaferro Magnetite MineManganesePast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Oglethorpe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Philomath in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPhilomath$1,500The Oglethorpe County Emergency Manager reported that several trees were blown down in Philomath.
February 2005HailPhilomath-The public reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Oglethorpe 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
Hogan7.9 miles11
Bowling Green (historical)8.1 miles10
Wise (historical)9.1 miles12
Maxeys9.8 miles10
Stephens10.2 miles10
Anon (historical)10.3 miles12
Lexington11.7 miles11
Hutchins12.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332654. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.