Beacon Heights, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Madison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30650. The Survey maps it on the Madison quadrangle.

Beacon Heights within Morgan County

On record in Beacon Heights

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Bonar Halllisted 1972 · 0.6 miles away
Nathan Bennett Houselisted 1974 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Madison quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

70 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Beacon Heights between 1993 and 2019, burning about 307 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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	37
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	5
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
10 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MORGAN-002
26 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MORGAN001
9 July 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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 Beacon Heights: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Alliston Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Morgan 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
Madison	1.3 miles	11
Canaan	1.9 miles	11
Smyrna	4.1 miles	11
Brownwood	4.3 miles	16
Aqua (historical)	4.3 miles	11
Bethany	4.3 miles	11
Dorsey	4.4 miles	16
Sugar Creek	5.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331110. 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.