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Chavistown, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Wallace census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29512. The Survey maps it on the Wallace quadrangle.

Chavistown within Marlboro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

409 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 409 fires within 5 miles of Chavistown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,070 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 86 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/undetermined152
Debris and open burning129
Arson/incendiarism86
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2012Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marlboro County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Chavistown: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Naked CreekIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Cheraw MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Cheraw MineClayProducer
Gin Creek MineClayPast Producer
Irby MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Palmetto MineClayProducer
Unnamed Clay PitClayUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Marlboro 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
Everetts (historical)1.9 miles9
Quick Crossroads2.1 miles8
Irby (historical)3.0 miles9
Hickson (historical)3.6 miles9
Madeline4.1 miles9
Wallace4.3 miles9
Century Acres5.2 miles8
Islay (historical)5.3 miles8

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 Q122567317The 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 1221527. 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.