Blake, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Hendersonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29945. The Survey maps it on the Yemassee quadrangle.

Blake within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1918 USGS Yemassee quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Yemassee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Yemassee quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

372 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 372 fires within 5 miles of Blake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,411 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 89 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/undetermined	177
Arson/incendiarism	89
Debris and open burning	85
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton 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
Salkehatchie	2.5 miles	19
Jonesville	3.9 miles	19
White Hall	4.7 miles	18
Bluehouse Corners	6.6 miles	17
Hendersonville	7.2 miles	17
Hickory Hill	7.6 miles	18
Catholic Hill	8.2 miles	17
Green Pond	8.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231060. 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.