Brunsons Store, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sumter Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29153. The Survey maps it on the Mayesville quadrangle.

Brunsons Store within Sumter 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 Mayesville quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Mayesville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Mayesville 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
1983 USGS Mayesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

339 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 339 fires within 5 miles of Brunsons Store between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,669 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 59 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	134
Debris and open burning	123
Arson/incendiarism	59
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter 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
Britton	3.6 miles	14
Forest Heights	3.9 miles	16
Geddie Gardens	4.2 miles	16
Leawood	4.3 miles	16
Pine Acres	4.4 miles	16
Midland Acres	4.5 miles	16
Concord Estates	4.6 miles	16
Sherwood Forest	4.7 miles	16

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 Q122548739

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 1247033. 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.