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Barrell Landing, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Bluffton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29909. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle.

Barrell Landing within Beaufort County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Barrell Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,398 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined70
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism24
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1

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
28 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined149 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2012Natural3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Barrell Landing: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Ward #1 MineSandUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Beaufort 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
Cherry Point Landing2.3 miles16
Pinckney Colony2.3 miles16
Baileys Landing4.2 miles16
Pritchardville4.3 miles17
Copp Landing4.6 miles17
Chelsea4.7 miles16
Pritchard5.2 miles15
Bluffton5.5 miles18

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 Q122557833The 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 1253464. 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.