Beverly Heights, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Watkinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30606. It stands on Parker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Athens West quadrangle.

Beverly Heights within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Athens West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1998 USGS Athens West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Beverly Heights between 1992 and 2017, burning about 248 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 29 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
Arson/incendiarism	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CLARKE-004
6 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee 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
Ben Dowdy	0.4 miles	15
Tanglebrook	0.6 miles	15
Birchmore	1.1 miles	15
Crystal Hills	1.4 miles	15
Barber Creek Estates	1.6 miles	15
Overlook Village	1.7 miles	15
Riverhaven Estates	1.7 miles	15
Highland Oaks	1.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356693. 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.