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Beachton, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Southeast Grady census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31792. The Survey maps it on the Beachton quadrangle. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Beachton within Grady County

On record in Beachton

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 4 records

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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Beachton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,104 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 burning72
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural4
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2006Debris and open burning5.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-GRADY-014
23 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-GRADY-013
17 July 2019Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020GRADY001
6 June 1998Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beachton in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 2008Flash FloodBeachton1 killed, $8,500,000Many roads and low lying areas were flooded. More than 700 miles of county roads were were undermined by the flood waters. A teenage boy drowned when he fell into rushing flood waters of an overflowing lake in Deer Lake subdivision. A man was seriously injured trying to save the boy. Numerous homes in Cairo were flooded, with some inundated by water as high as four feet. Rainfall amounts ranged from ten to twenty inches throughout the county.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBeachton$3,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in the Beachton area.
July 2025HailBeachton-Nickel to quarter size hail fell and lasted several minutes.
November 2022Thunderstorm WindBeachton-A tree was blown down across Highway 319 near Mile Marker 5.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBeachton-Trees were blown down along Highway 93 south of the Ochlockonee River.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBeachton-A tree was blown down along Highway 319 near mile marker 6.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBeachton-A tree was blown down in the Beachton area.
May 2005HailBeachton-Penny size hail reported by the public on U.S. Highway 319.
November 1997HailBeachton-Dime size hail in south central Grady county just north of Beachton.
April 2021HailBeachton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grady 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
Moncrief1.0 miles13
Pleasant Hill (historical)1.5 miles13
Rocky Hill4.1 miles13
Good Hope (historical)6.9 miles12
Midway7.2 miles12
Pine Hill7.4 miles11
Bethel8.4 miles12
Reno8.7 miles12

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 BeachtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4875883The 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 326174. 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.