Beach, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Dixie Union census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31554. The Survey maps it on the Beach quadrangle.

Beach within Ware 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Beach between 1992 and 2019, burning about 24,438 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 39 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	122
Arson/incendiarism	39
Natural	29
Railroad operations and maintenance	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	2

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	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BACON-016
28 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BACON002
28 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WARE-007
17 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ware County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beach in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Beach	-	Multiple trees and power lines were blown down across the northern tier of Ware county.
December 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Beach	-	Ware County Fire Rescue reported power lines down near Beach Road.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beach	-	Reports of trees down in northern portion of county around 130 pm EST and this time frame was confirmed by radar imagery.

Every storm recorded in Ware 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
Bolen	4.0 miles	8
Crawley	4.6 miles	8
Bickley	5.8 miles	8
Haywood	6.8 miles	8
Dixie Union	7.3 miles	8
Talmo	9.4 miles	8
Waltertown	11.1 miles	8
Viviani	12.9 miles	8

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 Beach	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080576	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 326173. 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.