Beverly, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Coldwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30635. It stands on Blue Branch. The Survey maps it on the Heardmont quadrangle.

Beverly within Elbert County

On record in Beverly

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.

William Allen House0.2 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1893 USGS Elberton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Heardmont quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Beverly between 1992 and 2020, burning about 378 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 3 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	46
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Natural	10
Smoking	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	6.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1993	Debris and open burning	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020ELBERT004
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	7.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elbert 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
Pearl	1.0 miles	14
Heardmont	2.0 miles	14
Stansell (historical)	2.0 miles	14
Middleton	2.1 miles	15
Ruckersville	5.7 miles	14
Cauthen	5.7 miles	15
Edinburg (historical)	6.0 miles	14
Fortsonia	6.2 miles	15

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 Beverly	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888618	The 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 331156. 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.