Bloomingvale, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Nesmith census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29510. The Survey maps it on the Warsaw quadrangle.

Bloomingvale within Williamsburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1946 USGS Indiantown quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Warsaw quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

311 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 311 fires within 5 miles of Bloomingvale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,491 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 80 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	100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	99
Arson/incendiarism	80
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg 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
Cooper	1.1 miles	8
Warsaw	4.2 miles	8
Kellehan Crossroads	4.7 miles	8
Antioch	4.9 miles	9
Tisdale	5.1 miles	8
Morrisville	5.3 miles	8
Snow Town	5.4 miles	8
Earle	6.1 miles	8

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 Q122555915

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 1241382. 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.