Betts, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Manchester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30293. It stands on Powell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Woodbury quadrangle.

Betts within Meriwether County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1934 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1936 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Woodbury quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Betts between 1992 and 2020, burning about 806 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 25 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	115
Arson/incendiarism	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	8
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MERIWETHER004
29 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MERIWETHER-008
26 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether 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
Langdon	0.8 miles	22
Woodbury	2.2 miles	22
Persico	2.7 miles	22
Raleigh	2.8 miles	22
McLendon Crossroads	3.5 miles	22
Johnson Crossroads	3.5 miles	22
Carrolls	4.3 miles	8
Andrews Crossroads	4.5 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331151. 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.