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Bachman Chapel, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Prosperity census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29127. The Survey maps it on the Newberry East quadrangle.

Bachman Chapel within Newberry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Bachman Chapel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 195 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
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
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2016Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newberry 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
Taylors Crossroads1.1 miles14
Union1.7 miles13
Boyd3.1 miles12
Prosperity3.2 miles12
Kibler3.4 miles15
Saint Phillips3.4 miles13
Southeast Newberry3.4 miles13
Slighs4.8 miles15

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 Q122570845The 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 1229367. 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.