Brewington, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Manning East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29102. It stands on Broad Branch. The Survey maps it on the Foreston quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Brewington within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

1920 USGS Manning quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Manning quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Manning quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Foreston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Brewington (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,057 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 54 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	82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	79
Arson/incendiarism	54
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	6
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2018	Natural	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon 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
Cypress Fork Crossroads	3.4 miles	17
Wilson	4.3 miles	17
Foreston	4.8 miles	17
Baggette Crossroads	6.8 miles	16
Bloomville	7.3 miles	16
Trinity Cross Roads	7.6 miles	16
Wilson Crossroads	7.7 miles	16
Union Crossroads	7.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1235892. 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.