BlockBefore

Andersonville, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Townville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29643. It stands on Seneca River. The Survey maps it on the Hartwell NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Andersonville within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

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 Andersonville (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 775 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning3.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HART-008
4 August 2015Natural1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-HART-001
20 August 2008Natural1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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
Sadler (historical)1.2 miles15
Price (historical)2.1 miles15
Lakefront3.6 miles15
Double Springs4.1 miles17
Holland Store4.6 miles15
Allendale5.3 miles15
Huntington Heights5.7 miles17
Oakdale5.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234013. 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.