Comingtee, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29461. It stands on Comingtee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kittredge quadrangle.

Comingtee within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1919 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Kittredge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Comingtee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,521 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 51 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	76
Arson/incendiarism	51
Debris and open burning	48
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
11 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	RAIN DELAY
31 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2011	Natural	40 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Rice Hope	1.1 miles	12
Hagan Landing	1.3 miles	12
Childsbury	1.5 miles	12
Hagan	1.6 miles	12
Strawberry Landing	1.7 miles	12
Richmond	2.1 miles	12
Woodland Landing	2.3 miles	12
Ellwood	2.4 miles	12

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 Q122556194

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 1247354. 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.