Beulah, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lincolnton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30668. The Survey maps it on the Broad quadrangle.

Beulah within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1906 USGS Crawfordville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Broad quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 1992 and 2019, burning about 695 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 7 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	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	36 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Natural	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WILKES-002
26 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WILKES-002
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-LINCOLN-004
12 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 Beulah: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite. 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
	Pink Pearl Quarry	Granite	Producer
	Silver Pearl Quarry	Granite	Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Gill	0.4 miles	14
Chennault	2.2 miles	14
Lisbon	3.0 miles	14
Graball	3.4 miles	14
Midway	5.5 miles	14
Honora	6.5 miles	14
Goshen	8.0 miles	14
Curry Hill	8.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326184. 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.