Coalla, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Allendale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29810. The Survey maps it on the Barton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Coalla within Allendale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1920 USGS Peeples quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Peeples quadrangle1:62500
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
1978 USGS Barton quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Coalla (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 825 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 44 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
Debris and open burning	68
Arson/incendiarism	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Natural	11
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2009	Smoking	1.3 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allendale 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
Sanders (historical)	1.9 miles	15
Fairfax	2.4 miles	16
Allendale	2.7 miles	15
Moores Crossroads	3.0 miles	15
Lopers Crossroads	3.4 miles	15
Woods Crossroads	4.1 miles	15
Barton	4.2 miles	15
Sycamore	4.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1233113. 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.