Canaan, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29038. The Survey maps it on the Midway quadrangle.

Canaan within Orangeburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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 Orangeburg quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Orangeburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Orangeburg quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Orangeburg quadrangle1:125000
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 Midway quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Canaan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 775 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	58
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	6
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
9 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1996	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 Orangeburg 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
Cope	4.9 miles	15
Rowesville	6.2 miles	17
Sixty Six	6.3 miles	17
Highland Park	7.4 miles	18
Cordova	7.4 miles	18
Branchville	8.5 miles	17
Felder	8.6 miles	18
Hillavista	9.6 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1221289. 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.