Bethel, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Altamaha River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31563. The Survey maps it on the Altamaha SW quadrangle.

Bethel within Appling 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Altamaha SW quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Bethel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,241 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 19 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	114
Natural	29
Arson/incendiarism	19
Smoking	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1996	Debris and open burning	27 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1996	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING022
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2011	Smoking	8.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-APPLING-033
17 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-APPLING-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appling 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
Zion	3.3 miles	7
McTier	5.3 miles	7
Eason Bluff	5.6 miles	7
Surrency	7.4 miles	7
Davis	7.7 miles	8
Wheaton	8.5 miles	8
Warrick Homes	10.7 miles	8
Spring Branch	10.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331143. 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.