Burtons, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29434. The Survey maps it on the Bethera quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Burtons within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1919 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Bethera quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Bethera quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

289 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Burtons (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,437 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 145 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	145
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Debris and open burning	50
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
28 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	QUITTING TIME
28 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	LTD
18 September 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	HURRICANE
12 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Witherbee	0.5 miles	11
Kensington	1.9 miles	11
Limerick	1.9 miles	11
Razorville (historical)	2.0 miles	11
Spring Head (historical)	2.2 miles	11
Cordesville	3.0 miles	12
Conifer (historical)	3.1 miles	11
Spring Hill (historical)	3.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234446. 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.