Apia, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Windsor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29856. The Survey maps it on the Oakwood quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Apia within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1920 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Oakwood quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

463 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 463 fires within 5 miles of Apia (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,963 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 37 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	207
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	106
Arson/incendiarism	37
Misuse of fire by a minor	36
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Natural	20
Smoking	13
Other causes	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Fireworks	4
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
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	WINDSOR ROAD
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Other causes	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken 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
Windsor	2.0 miles	17
Oakwood	2.6 miles	15
Mount Beulah	4.1 miles	17
Montmorenci	5.4 miles	18
Couchton	5.9 miles	15
Kitchings Mill	6.2 miles	12
Spring Branch (historical)	6.2 miles	16
White Pond	6.4 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236213. 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.