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Camp Rawls, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wagener census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29164. The Survey maps it on the Seivern quadrangle.

Camp Rawls within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Camp Rawls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,077 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 32 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 burning74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Arson/incendiarism32
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes3
Smoking2
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 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2013Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2015Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Camp Rawls: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Edisto MineKaolinProducer
Aiken County Mine Number 2ClayUnknownSedimentary
Aiken County Mine Number 2ClayPast Producer
Brodie Kaolin MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary Kaolin
Laughlin MineClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Aiken 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
New Holland2.8 miles12
New Holland Crossroads3.2 miles12
Barefoot3.4 miles12
Earle (historical)4.7 miles16
Chaffee (historical)5.2 miles12
Kitchings Mill5.3 miles12
Seivern5.6 miles12
Foxtown6.2 miles16

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 Q122546044The 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 1231130. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.