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.
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
Dickey-Birdsong Plantationlisted 1995
Evergreen Congregational Church and Schoollisted 2002
Ochlocknee Missionary Baptist Church and Cemeterylisted 2010
Susina Plantationlisted 1970
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Beachton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Beachton quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Beachton quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
99 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 72 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-GRADY-014 |
| 23 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-GRADY-013 |
| 17 July 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020GRADY001 |
| 6 June 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Beachton | 1 killed, $8,500,000 | Many 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beachton | $3,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down in the Beachton area. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Beachton | - | Nickel to quarter size hail fell and lasted several minutes. |
| November 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beachton | - | A tree was blown down across Highway 319 near Mile Marker 5. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beachton | - | Trees were blown down along Highway 93 south of the Ochlockonee River. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beachton | - | A tree was blown down along Highway 319 near mile marker 6. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beachton | - | A tree was blown down in the Beachton area. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Beachton | - | Penny size hail reported by the public on U.S. Highway 319. |
| November 1997 | Hail | Beachton | - | Dime size hail in south central Grady county just north of Beachton. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Beachton | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moncrief | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Pleasant Hill (historical) | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Rocky Hill | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Good Hope (historical) | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Midway | 7.2 miles | 12 | |
| Pine Hill | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Bethel | 8.4 miles | 12 | |
| Reno | 8.7 miles | 12 |
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 Beachton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4875883 | 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 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.







