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Bolen Town, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Norway census division. The Survey maps it on the Norway East quadrangle.

Bolen Town within Orangeburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

364 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 364 fires within 5 miles of Bolen Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 777 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning206
Missing data/not specified/undetermined79
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Smoking17
Arson/incendiarism11
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gravel Hill2.4 miles18
Pine Hill3.6 miles13
Poplar Spring3.8 miles18
Great Branch3.9 miles13
Cordova5.8 miles18
Norway5.9 miles14
Beverly Hills6.0 miles18
Edisto6.3 miles18

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 Q122595353The 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 1246938. 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.