Bethel, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Guyton-Springfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31329. The Survey maps it on the Springfield North quadrangle.

Bethel within Effingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1919 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1939 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

323 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Bethel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,320 acres in total. 10 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	207
Arson/incendiarism	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	4

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
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020EFFINGHAM007
23 September 1993	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2009	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham 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
Lorenzo	2.0 miles	16
Springfield	3.7 miles	16
Tusculum	4.3 miles	16
Spring Branch	4.4 miles	16
Shawnee	5.1 miles	16
Berryville	5.2 miles	16
Guyton	5.7 miles	16
Stillwell	6.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331144. 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.