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Arborville, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Due West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29638. The Survey maps it on the Shoals Junction quadrangle.

Arborville within Abbeville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Arborville between 1992 and 2017, burning about 442 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined73
Debris and open burning54
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use21 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Abbeville 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
Gilgal1.1 miles13
Brick House1.5 miles13
Buck Stand2.0 miles13
Central-Shiloh2.2 miles13
Iris3.2 miles13
Due West3.6 miles13
Drake4.2 miles13
Shiloh4.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1229357. 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.