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Benevolence, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Benevolence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39840. The Survey maps it on the Benevolence quadrangle.

Benevolence within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Benevolence between 1992 and 2019, burning about 399 acres in total. 10 started naturally. None was 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 burning68
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
27 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Recreation and ceremony8.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-RANDOLPH-010
22 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1995Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-RANDOLPH-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph 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 Benevolence: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Wade QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Williamson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Benevolence in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail. 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
March 2011Tornado (EF1)Benevolence$65,000The Randolph county sheriff's department and emergency management reported a tornado touchdown in the city of Benevolence. Damage included several trees and power lines down, one mobile home destroyed, one mobile home severely damaged, and several outbuildings destroyed. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindBenevolence$5,000Several tree limbs were downed from thunderstorm winds which caused several power outages between Benevolence and Troutman.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindBenevolence$1,000A tree was blown down near Benevolence. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2017Tornado (EF1)Benevolence-This tornado touched down near the Randolph-Stewart county line. It was produced from the same supercell that spawned the tornado that impacted Henry and Barbour counties in Alabama and Quitman county in Georgia. The Randolph county portion of the tornado track was rated EF1 due to tree damage. This is a rural area, and no structures were damaged in Randolph county. This tornado continued into Stewart and Webster counties with the max intensity rated as EF2 in Stewart county with max winds estimated near 120 mph.
May 2024HailBenevolence-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Gore1.4 miles7
Wades2.5 miles7
Pumpkintown3.2 miles7
Brooksville4.2 miles7
Water Pipe5.5 miles7
Cuthbert8.2 miles7
Springvale8.5 miles7
Pachitla8.7 miles7

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 BenevolenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080632The 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 331134. 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.