Benefit, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mossy Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30528. The Survey maps it on the Leaf quadrangle.

Benefit within White County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1886 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1896 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Leaf quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Benefit between 1992 and 2020, burning about 539 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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	162
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	3
Natural	1
Other causes	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
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WHITE001
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HALL-008
11 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WHITE-001
6 August 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Benefit: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Gold. 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
	Armour Prospect	Manganese	Prospect
	Lymsden Property	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

7 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Benefit in 7 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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
March 2017	Hail	Benefit	$432,000	The White County Fire Department reported golf ball size hail along Old Highway 75 near the Hall County line.
October 2020	Flash Flood	Benefit	$15,000	The Emergency Manager reported that a bridge on Airport Road was completely washed away and destroyed. Radar estimates indicate that 6 to 8 inches of rain occurred in the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Benefit	$5,000	Multiple trees reported down at Post Rd and Stover Rd.
December 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Benefit	$2,000	A tree and power lines were downed at Westmoreland Rd and Samson Way.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Benefit	$1,000	Tree down across road near intersection of Hamilton Drive and Old Highway 75S.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Benefit	$1,000	A tree was downed on Hood Acres Rd .
July 2023	Hail	Benefit	-	Report of 1 inch hail on Airport Rd near Runway Cir.

Every storm recorded in White 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
Leo	1.3 miles	19
Pink	2.5 miles	19
Mossy Creek	2.6 miles	19
Centerside	2.7 miles	19
Cleveland	3.2 miles	19
Oculus (historical)	3.3 miles	19
Leaf	3.8 miles	19
Rogers Mill	4.6 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 327070. 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.