Calestown, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Bonneau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29431. The Survey maps it on the Alvin quadrangle.

Calestown within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1943 USGS Bonneau quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Alvin quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

317 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 317 fires within 5 miles of Calestown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,985 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 159 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	159
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	74
Debris and open burning	59
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	7
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	HUNTER
27 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	VON HOLLEN
9 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	3.7 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	CHIP
7 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	TIMBER JACK
5 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	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
Savanna Creek	1.6 miles	9
Beufordtown	2.3 miles	8
Alvin	4.3 miles	9
Hickory Grove (historical)	4.8 miles	9
Jamestown	5.0 miles	8
Farewell Corner	5.1 miles	8
Wrangle Town (historical)	5.2 miles	11
Tiger Corner (historical)	5.8 miles	8

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 Q122538904

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 1235260. 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.