Beatum, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Little Sand Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30747. It lies near Little Mountain Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Subligna quadrangle.

Beatum within Chattooga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1886 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Subligna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Beatum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,979 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 64 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
Arson/incendiarism	64
Debris and open burning	61
Recreation and ceremony	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	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
7 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	TEEMS
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	JOHNS MTN
4 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	JOHNS CREEK
25 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	EVERETTE SPRINGS
21 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattooga County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beatum in 2 storm reports in 2009: 2 flood. 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
September 2009	Flood	Beatum	$7,440,000	The Chattooga County Emergency Management Director reported that significant and extensive flooding continued across much of the county. The Chattooga River breached the levees and flooded parts of the city of Trion. Dozens of homes and business were flooded and sustained significant damage, especially in the city of Trion. A number of roads were also flooded, impassable, and closed. Additional monetary damage nearing $7.5 million was incurred during this time frame.
September 2009	Flood	Beatum	$3,720,000	Chattooga county emergency management personnel and USGS stream gages confirmed that major to record flooding continued across much of the county. Many homes, apartments, businesses, and roads sustained damage from flooding. Several roads were closed. Monetary damage from flooding continued to mount, with damages exceeding $3.7 million during this time frame, nearly all of which occurred prior to 845 am EDT on the 22nd. Flood waters began to recede after 845 am EDT on the 22nd, but many locations remained flooded through 845 am EDT on the 23rd.

Every storm recorded in Chattooga 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
Subligna	2.4 miles	20
Haywood (historical)	6.4 miles	16
Farmersville	7.7 miles	16
East Trion	7.9 miles	19
Zula (historical)	8.7 miles	16
Trion	8.9 miles	19
Welcome Hill	9.0 miles	19
Gore	10.1 miles	16

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 Beatum	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080585	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 331116. 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.