Cattle Creek, 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 29471. The Survey maps it on the Reevesville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cattle Creek 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.

1920 USGS St. George quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS St George quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1921 USGS St. George quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Orangeburg quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS St. George quadrangle1:62500
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
1982 USGS Reevesville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

287 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Cattle Creek (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,053 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 58 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	103
Debris and open burning	86
Arson/incendiarism	58
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	10
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
23 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dorange	1.4 miles	18
Sugar Hill	3.3 miles	18
Reevesville	3.9 miles	18
Cat Hole	4.5 miles	18
Badham	5.9 miles	18
Old Saint George	6.3 miles	18
Hudsontown	6.9 miles	18
Cow Tail (historical)	7.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241062. 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.