Carolina Gardens, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sumter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29150. It stands on Powder Horn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sumter East quadrangle.

Carolina Gardens within Sumter County

On record in Carolina Gardens

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Charles T. Mason Houselisted 1997 · 0.4 miles away
Henry Lee Scarborough Houselisted 1995 · 0.9 miles away
Elizabeth White Houselisted 1978 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1946 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Sumter East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

395 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 395 fires within 5 miles of Carolina Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,514 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 48 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	156
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	144
Arson/incendiarism	48
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Fireworks	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
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Carolina Gardens: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Francis Moise Prospect	Iron	Prospect
	White's Mill Prospect	Iron	Prospect

Every working recorded in Sumter 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
Summers Homes	0.4 miles	16
Oaklawn	0.9 miles	16
Folsom Park	0.9 miles	16
Walnut Hills	1.0 miles	16
Garris Park	1.0 miles	16
Burns Down	1.2 miles	16
Archdale	1.2 miles	16
Gatewood Park	1.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1244482. 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.