Beall, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Talbotton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31827. It stands on Marshall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Talbotton quadrangle.

Beall within Talbot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

236 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Beall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,088 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 54 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	102
Arson/incendiarism	54
Railroad operations and maintenance	35
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4

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
8 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021TALBOT002
7 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-TALBOT-001
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TALBOT-003
30 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TALBOT012
3 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021TALBOT001
28 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-TALBOT-007
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talbot 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
Greens Mill	2.3 miles	22
Belleview	2.4 miles	22
Hawkins Crossroads	3.3 miles	22
Woodland	3.4 miles	22
Talbotton	4.2 miles	16
Olive Branch	5.4 miles	16
Po Biddy Crossroads	5.4 miles	8
Pleasant Hill	5.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326175. 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.