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Ashepoo Siding, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Green Pond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29446. The Survey maps it on the Green Pond quadrangle.

Ashepoo Siding within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Ashepoo Siding between 1994 and 2017, burning about 523 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined236 acresAce Basin National Wildlife RefugeCBFLDS96-1
10 July 2008Natural4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 May 2000Equipment and vehicle use65 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2001Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 March 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ashepoo Siding: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Peat. 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
Airy Hall Peat MinePeatProducerSedimentary
Green Pond MinePeatUnknownSedimentary
T.T. Mine (Ti Ti Mine)PeatProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Colleton 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
Fenwick2.8 miles17
Wiggins3.2 miles18
Bennetts Point5.8 miles18
Hickory Hill7.2 miles18
Ashepoo7.6 miles18
Green Pond8.9 miles18
Seabrook9.1 miles18
Jacksonboro9.5 miles16

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 Q122560785The 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 1231015. 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.