Bethel, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Calvary-Reno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39828. The Survey maps it on the Reno quadrangle.

Bethel within Grady County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Whigham quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Reno quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Bethel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 734 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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	161
Arson/incendiarism	20
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	3

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 1995	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GRADY-008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grady 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
Reno	1.4 miles	12
Pine Hill	2.3 miles	11
Good Hope (historical)	2.8 miles	12
Sofkee (historical)	3.3 miles	12
Calvary	3.5 miles	11
Nickleville	4.2 miles	12
Orange Springs	5.5 miles	12
Rocky Hill	5.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342446. 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.