BlockBennetts Point, South Carolina
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Green Pond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29446. It stands on Musselboro Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bennetts Point quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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 Bennetts Point 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
5 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bennetts Point between 1995 and 2017, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 2010 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 April 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 November 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 January 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | LIGHTHOUSE LANE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seabrook | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Wiggins | 5.6 miles | 18 | |
| Ashepoo Siding | 5.8 miles | 18 | |
| Fenwick | 6.3 miles | 17 | |
| Edisto Beach | 8.5 miles | 16 | |
| Hickory Hill | 11.8 miles | 18 | |
| Ashepoo | 13.4 miles | 18 | |
| Jacksonboro | 14.4 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1246742. 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.