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Air Base Heights, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29506. The Survey maps it on the Florence East quadrangle.

Air Base Heights within Florence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

393 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 393 fires within 5 miles of Air Base Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,836 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 65 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined151
Debris and open burning104
Arson/incendiarism65
Misuse of fire by a minor43
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Air Base Heights: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Asphalt Plant #8Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Black Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
No. 8 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Quinby PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Quinly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Florence 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
Woodmont0.8 miles9
Florence1.2 miles11
Ponderosa1.2 miles9
Wilson Heights1.3 miles11
Wilson Estates1.5 miles11
Meeks1.5 miles9
Carolina Acres1.7 miles9
Glencove1.7 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122570352The 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 1242296. 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.