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Beaverdale, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Whitfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30721. It stands on Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beaverdale quadrangle.

Beaverdale within Whitfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Beaverdale between 1992 and 2019, burning about 478 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 27 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 burning117
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MURRAY-004
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning5.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-WHITFIELD-001
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning4.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Beaverdale: 4 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lafollette Coal and Iron Co ProspIronProspect
W R Rymer PropertyIronProspect
George Cline PropertyBarium-BaritePast Producer
Sam & Jw Cline PropertyBarium-BariteProspect
W. R. Cline PropertyBarium-BariteProspect
Ruralvale AreaPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Whitfield County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaverdale in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2009FloodBeaverdale$5,000The USGS stream gage on the Conasauga River near Eton reached its flood stage of 12.0 feet at 630 pm EDT. The river runs along the Murray/Whitfield county line. The river remained above flood stage through 915 pm EDT. In addition, minor flooding continued along Coahulla Creek near Keith's Mill during this time period. Monetary damage from this flooding was confined to minor debris removal to land adjacent to the river. No siginficant property damage was reported.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBeaverdale$1,000Powerlines down at Mount Pleasant Road and Cohutta Beaverdale Road.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindBeaverdale-A tree was down into the road in the 3000 block of Mount Pleasant Rd.
June 2015HailBeaverdale-The public reported quarter sized hail in Beaverdale.
October 2014HailBeaverdale-The Whitfield County Emergency Manager and an employee of the Beaverdale Superette reported penny-sized hail near where Prater Mill Road, Cohutta Beaverdale Road and Beaverdale Road meet.

Every storm recorded in Whitfield 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ruralvale2.9 miles19
Edgar (historical)3.2 miles24
Mills (historical)3.4 miles24
Toonnerville4.4 miles21
Prater Mill4.5 miles24
Norton4.6 miles21
Cedar Valley5.9 miles21
Plainview6.2 miles24

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 BeaverdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080587The 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 331120. 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.