Benedict, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Brunswick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31520. The Survey maps it on the Brunswick West quadrangle.

Benedict within Glynn County

On record in Benedict

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Ballard Schoollisted 2004 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1918 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Brunswick West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Brunswick West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

261 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Benedict between 1992 and 2020, burning about 759 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 94 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	94
Debris and open burning	70
Misuse of fire by a minor	35
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-GLYNN-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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
Pine Forest	0.2 miles	17
Cox	0.3 miles	19
Pine Ridge	0.4 miles	19
Bel Air	0.5 miles	17
Glenwood Estates	0.6 miles	19
Glynco	0.6 miles	19
Pineview	0.7 miles	17
Kinstle	0.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331133. 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.