Cedar Creek Landing, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wando census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29450. It stands on French Quarter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kittredge quadrangle.

Cedar Creek Landing within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1919 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Kittredge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

270 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Creek Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,499 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 50 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	128
Debris and open burning	76
Arson/incendiarism	50
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
20 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 2012	Natural	6.7 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Hagan	1.5 miles	12
Richmond	1.6 miles	12
Woodland	1.7 miles	12
Woodland Landing	1.9 miles	12
Hagan Landing	1.9 miles	12
Red Hill	2.5 miles	13
Comingtee	2.6 miles	12
Moreland	3.1 miles	12

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 Q122562100

The 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 1231145. 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.