Almeda, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hampton-Varnville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29944. The Survey maps it on the Hampton quadrangle.

Almeda within Hampton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1918 USGS Varnville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Varnville quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Hampton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

338 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 338 fires within 5 miles of Almeda between 1992 and 2020, burning about 927 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 72 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	121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	104
Arson/incendiarism	72
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Natural	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
11 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2016	Natural	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton 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
Camp Branch	1.9 miles	16
Varnville	2.1 miles	16
Hickory Hill (historical)	2.6 miles	16
Cummings	4.3 miles	16
Hampton	5.3 miles	16
Horsegall	5.9 miles	16
Crocketville	6.2 miles	16
Fechtig	6.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1220187. 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.