Bethel, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Monticello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31064. The Survey maps it on the Lloyd Shoals Dam quadrangle.

Bethel within Jasper 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Lloyd Shoals Dam quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Bethel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 787 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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	149
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Natural	8
Smoking	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-JASPER-010
23 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JASPER005
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-JASPER-003
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-JASPER-002
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JASPER004
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bethel in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	$5,000	The Jasper County 911 Center reported several trees down along Highway 212 northwest of Monticello.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	$5,000	The Jasper County 911 Center reported that at least a dozen trees were down in the far western portion of the county along and either side of Georgia Highway 16. National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a distinct mesocylone in the area at the time. However, no tornado touchdown was confirmed.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	$3,000	The Jasper County 911 Center reported that at least 10 trees were down in the Lake Jackson community on the south end of Lake Jackson along the Butts county line. Power outages were also reported in the Monticello area. National Weather Service Doppler radar detected a definite mesocyclone circulation which tracked across the west and central portion of the county during this period.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	$1,500	The Central Georgia Electric Management Cooperative reported that six trees were blown down along Georgia Highway 212 six miles northwest of Monticello near Bethel.

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Palato	2.7 miles	11
Calvin	3.6 miles	11
Hardys Crossroads	4.1 miles	12
Blackwell	4.2 miles	11
Prospect	4.4 miles	12
Mechanicsville (historical)	4.5 miles	12
Minneta	4.7 miles	11
Monticello	4.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354585. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.