Chelsea, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It lies in ZIP code area 29936. It sits by Okatee Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle.

Chelsea within Beaufort County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1920 USGS Okatie quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Okatie quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Chelsea between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,053 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 24 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	53
Debris and open burning	25
Arson/incendiarism	24
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	45 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2012	Natural	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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
Baileys Landing	0.6 miles	16
Fripp Landing	2.1 miles	17
Cherry Point Landing	2.5 miles	16
Pinckney Colony	2.6 miles	16
Pinckney Landing	2.7 miles	17
Riverdale	3.0 miles	15
Copp Landing	4.1 miles	17
Barrell Landing	4.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1237161. 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.