Beaumount, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Boynton Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30736. It lies near Beaumont Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Nickajack Gap quadrangle.

Beaumount within Catoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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
1935 USGS Nickajack Gap quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Nickajack Gap quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Nickajack Gap quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

461 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 461 fires within 5 miles of Beaumount between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,432 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 62 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	297
Arson/incendiarism	62
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Smoking	13
Recreation and ceremony	12
Natural	7

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
9 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CATOOSA002
9 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CATOOSA001
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa 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
Mount Pisgah	0.9 miles	25
Blue Spring	3.1 miles	28
Post Oak	4.0 miles	28
Pleasant Grove	4.1 miles	28
Burning Bush	4.3 miles	28
Red Belt	4.5 miles	28
Poplar Springs	5.4 miles	28
Boynton	5.9 miles	28

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.

Wikidata item Q122594547

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 331118. 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.