Bethel, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Peachtree City-Tyrone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30269. The Survey maps it on the Senoia quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bethel within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Senoia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Bethel (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 678 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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	67
Arson/incendiarism	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	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
7 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-COWETA-001
5 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020COWETA004
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-COWETA-003
7 August 2006	Natural	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-FAYETTE-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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 Bethel (historical): 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Mica. 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
	J H Neely Place	Granite	Occurrence
	Porter Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Fayette 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
Hamptons Corner	0.8 miles	9
Calgary Place	0.9 miles	9
Clover	1.1 miles	9
Morallion Hills	1.1 miles	9
Summer Brooke	1.2 miles	9
Meadow Run	1.2 miles	9
Timberlay	1.2 miles	9
Evian	1.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1687671. 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.