Beatrice, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lumpkin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31815. The Survey maps it on the Lumpkin SW quadrangle.

Beatrice within Stewart County

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.

1950 USGS Lumpkin quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Lumpkin SW quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Lumpkin quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Lumpkin SW quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Beatrice between 1992 and 2019, burning about 505 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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	68
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	21 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	56 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2008	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 1996	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-STEWART-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stewart 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 Beatrice: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
	Big Mill Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Stewart County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beatrice in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 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
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Beatrice	$2,000	The Stewart County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees were down along Canyon Road or Georgia Highway 39C between Lumpkin and Providence Canyon State Park. The Emergency Manager thought the damage might have been from a tornado and strong rotation was indicated in the area at the time. However, no tornado damage was confirmed from this event.

Every storm recorded in Stewart 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
Sunlight (historical)	0.6 miles	7
Sanford	2.8 miles	7
Tilley (historical)	5.0 miles	7
Coffinton	6.2 miles	9
Lumpkin	6.4 miles	12
Westville	6.5 miles	12
Mount Zion (historical)	6.9 miles	7
Roanoke (historical)	8.0 miles	9

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 Beatrice	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080584	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 347484. 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.

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.