BlockChisolm, South Carolina
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sheldon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29940. It lies near Horse Island. The Survey maps it on the Wiggins quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Green Pond quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Green Pond quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Wiggins quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
70 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Chisolm between 1993 and 2020, burning about 336 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 July 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 June 2004 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 April 2014 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaza (historical) | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Rivers Edge | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Wilkins | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Daniels | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Walling Grove | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Springfield | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Marsh Hawk | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| Lucy Creek | 4.5 miles | 19 |
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 Q122545263 | 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 1231170. 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.