Bentwood, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Oakwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30566. The Survey maps it on the Flowery Branch quadrangle.

Bentwood within Hall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1891 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Flowery Branch quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Flowery Branch quadrangle1:24000

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 Bentwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 345 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 52 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	87
Arson/incendiarism	52
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Smoking	12
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HALL-003
5 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HALL003
24 September 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-HALL-002
18 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hall 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 Bentwood: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Muddy Creek Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
	Vickers Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Hall 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
Waverly Way	0.6 miles	16
Quail Run	0.6 miles	16
Holiday Villa	0.6 miles	16
Southgate	0.8 miles	16
Pleasant View	0.8 miles	16
Oakwood	0.9 miles	16
Vista Brook	1.0 miles	16
Holiday Heights	1.1 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122541271

The 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 1686851. 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.