Blountville, South Carolina

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

Blountville within Hampton 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

336 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Blountville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,484 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 104 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
Arson/incendiarism	104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	101
Debris and open burning	92
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
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
20 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton 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
Yemassee	0.4 miles	19
Davidson	3.3 miles	19
McPhersonville	3.6 miles	19
Barkerville	4.6 miles	19
Early Branch	5.3 miles	19
Fechtig	7.8 miles	16
Cummings	9.7 miles	16
Horsegall	10.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231063. 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.