Bethel, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ashburn-Sycamore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31790. The Survey maps it on the Bethel quadrangle.

Bethel within Turner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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
1973 USGS Bethel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Photographs

3 photographs, 1977

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Poulan United Methodist Church, Bethel Baptist Church (sign), Shingler Methodist Church, Isabella Baptist Church, Worth County, Georgia, buildings and grounds; St. Luke's Pentecostal Church, Turner County, Georgia, building and grounds
Marshall, Howard W, 1977. Library of Congress

M.C. Parks, front porch interview, Turner County, Georgia; Bethel Baptist Church homecoming, Worth County, Georgia
Adler, Thomas A. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

423 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 423 fires within 5 miles of Bethel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 990 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 30 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	259
Equipment and vehicle use	87
Arson/incendiarism	30
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	4.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TURNER008
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TURNER-013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Turner County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bethel: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Alluvium

Every working recorded in Turner 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
Inaha	3.4 miles	8
Sycamore	3.9 miles	7
Ashburn	5.6 miles	7
Shinglers (historical)	8.3 miles	7
Coverdale	8.3 miles	7
Worth	8.6 miles	7
Hobby	9.2 miles	7
Cold Springs (historical)	9.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326181. 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.