Ashley Place, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kline-Snelling census division. The Survey maps it on the Girard NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ashley Place within Barnwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1920 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Ellenton 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 Girard NW quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Ashley Place (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 262 acres in total. 19 started naturally. None 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
Natural	19
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Savannah River Forest	MONKEYBAR
15 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	MEDIAN
11 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	SPLIT
29 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	ROADSIDE
21 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	HOG BARN
21 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	TRACK
19 August 1996	Natural	22 acres	Savannah River Forest	NEW GUY
17 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell 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
Robbins (historical)	1.3 miles	18
Leigh (historical)	4.2 miles	18
Hattieville	4.3 miles	16
Dunbarton (historical)	6.0 miles	17
Ellenton (historical)	6.2 miles	17
Donora (historical)	7.8 miles	17
Greenland (historical)	8.2 miles	18
Patterson Mill	8.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1235410. 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.