Bell Acres, South Carolina

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Darlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29532. It stands on Bellyache Creek. The Survey maps it on the Darlington West quadrangle.

Bell Acres within Darlington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Darlington West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

321 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 321 fires within 5 miles of Bell Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,343 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 28 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	150
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	96
Arson/incendiarism	28
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bell Acres: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Darington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
	Darington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Darlington 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
Royal Oaks	0.5 miles	7
Spring Acres	0.6 miles	7
Earlwood Park	0.6 miles	7
Williams Estates	0.7 miles	7
Country Oak	0.8 miles	7
Springdale	0.8 miles	7
Quail Hollow	0.9 miles	7
Hunters Ridge	0.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1240802. 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.