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Cat Hole, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Reevesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29432. It stands on Cattle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reevesville quadrangle.

Cat Hole within Dorchester County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires near this place

463 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 463 fires within 5 miles of Cat Hole between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,012 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 135 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 burning176
Arson/incendiarism135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined123
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2009Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burning2.3 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dorchester 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
Cattle Creek (historical)4.5 miles18
Cow Tail (historical)4.6 miles18
Old Saint George4.7 miles18
Reevesville4.9 miles18
Sugar Hill5.0 miles18
Dorange5.4 miles18
Badham5.6 miles18
Grover5.9 miles18

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 Q122562621The 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 1241065. 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.