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Colleton, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Smoaks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29475. The Survey maps it on the Lodge quadrangle.

Colleton within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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.

Photographs

5 photographs, 2017

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Aerial view of the town of Edisto Beach in Colleton County, South Carolina
Aerial view of the town of Edisto Beach in Colleton County, South Carolina
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Pon Pon Chapel of Ease, Parker's Ferry Road, 1 mile from South Carolina Highway 64, Jacksonboro, Colleton County, SC
Pon Pon Chapel of Ease, Parker's Ferry Road, 1 mile from South Carolina Highway 64, Jacksonboro, Colleton County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Cabin, Walterboro, Colleton County, SC
Cabin, Walterboro, Colleton County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Library, Wichman Street & North Miller (moved from Fishburne Street), Walterboro, Colleton County, SC
Library, Wichman Street & North Miller (moved from Fishburne Street), Walterboro, Colleton County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Mansion, Walterboro, Colleton County, SC
Mansion, Walterboro, Colleton County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

264 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Colleton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,372 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 45 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 burning100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined88
Arson/incendiarism45
Equipment and vehicle use21
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton 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
Caldwell1.1 miles18
Williams2.1 miles18
Padgetts2.2 miles18
Lodge4.3 miles18
Ruffin4.3 miles18
Bells Crossroads4.5 miles16
Smyly4.7 miles18
Ashton5.0 miles18

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 Q122558285The 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 1231184. 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.