Benton Crossing, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Monticello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31064. The Survey maps it on the Monticello quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Benton Crossing within Jasper County

On record in Benton Crossing

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 4 records

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

Jasper County Courthouselisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away
Monticello High Schoollisted 1978 · 0.8 miles away
Monticello Historic Districtlisted 1997 · 0.8 miles away
Hitchcock-Roberts Houselisted 1979 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Benton Crossing (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 465 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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	129
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Smoking	6
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	5

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
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JASPER003
4 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-JASPER-002
3 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-JASPER-010
26 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JASPER004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper 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 Benton Crossing (historical): 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar. 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
	Feldspar Corp Jasper Quarry C	Feldspar	Past Producer
	Feldspar Corp/ Ga Mine & Plant	Feldspar	Plant

Every working recorded in Jasper 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
Monticello	0.8 miles	11
Minneta	1.3 miles	11
Bethel	4.8 miles	12
Blackwell	4.9 miles	11
Adgateville	5.1 miles	12
McElheneys Crossroads	5.1 miles	14
Piedmont (historical)	5.2 miles	11
Goolsby	5.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346118. 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.