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Bethesda, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31406. It lies near Isle of Hope. The Survey maps it on the Isle of Hope quadrangle.

Bethesda within Chatham County

On record in Bethesda

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Bethesda between 1992 and 2017, burning about 329 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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 burning21
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking4
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-002
26 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2000Recreation and ceremony6.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CHATHAM-006
4 June 1996Debris and open burning4.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 June 1996Recreation and ceremony14 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 June 1993Debris and open burning8.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-CHATHAM-055

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pin Point0.7 miles15
Cedar Hammock1.0 miles15
Kings Wood1.1 miles15
Vernonburg1.4 miles15
Halcyon Bluff1.4 miles15
Burnside1.6 miles15
Wormsloe1.6 miles15
Cresthill1.9 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BethesdaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888613The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331146. 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.