Carolina, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Little Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29567. It stands on Carolina Branch. The Survey maps it on the Minturn quadrangle.

Carolina within Dillon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Laurinburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

324 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 324 fires within 5 miles of Carolina between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,053 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 134 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	134
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	87
Debris and open burning	65
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	North Carolina Forest Service	TOWNSENDVILLE ROAD
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	North Carolina Forest Service	not named
1 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon 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
Judson	2.0 miles	8
Sinclair Crossroads	3.6 miles	8
Minturn	4.4 miles	8
Oakland Crossroads	4.5 miles	10
Galavon	5.4 miles	7
McCormick Crossroads	5.9 miles	7
Little Rock	7.0 miles	7
Manning Crossroads	7.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236083. 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.