Chinquapin, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Greenwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29646. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle.

Chinquapin within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1892 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1949 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Chinquapin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 878 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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	142
Debris and open burning	44
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Smoking	7
Other causes	2
Natural	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
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood 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
McCombs	0.6 miles	15
Brookside	0.8 miles	15
Westover	0.8 miles	15
Westgate	1.0 miles	15
Fawn Brook	1.0 miles	15
Woodlawn	1.0 miles	15
Breckridge	1.2 miles	15
Bullock (historical)	1.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1253453. 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.