Bears Bluff, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wadmalaw Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29487. It stands on Toogoodoo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adams Run quadrangle.

Bears Bluff within Charleston 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.

1919 USGS Edisto Island quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Edisto Island quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Adams Run quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Bears Bluff between 1992 and 2018, burning about 476 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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
Debris and open burning	34
Arson/incendiarism	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
6 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 May 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 May 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 May 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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
White Point Landing	1.3 miles	18
Wadmalaw Island	2.1 miles	17
Oakgrove	2.5 miles	17
Gannon (historical)	3.2 miles	18
Rockland	3.5 miles	19
Yonges Island	3.6 miles	17
Steamboat Landing	3.6 miles	18
Gibson	3.7 miles	18

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 Q122591580

The 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 1231038. 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.