Conifer, South Carolina

11 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 29434. It stands on Kutz Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bethera quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Conifer within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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
1948 USGS Bethera quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Bethera quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

283 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Conifer (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,803 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 136 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	136
Debris and open burning	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Natural	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
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
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	QUITTING TIME
18 September 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	HURRICANE
30 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	SHOTGUN
3 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named
22 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	GETRIM
21 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	TRAILBLAZER

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
Limerick	2.2 miles	11
Razorville (historical)	2.3 miles	11
Spring Head (historical)	2.4 miles	11
Witherbee	2.8 miles	11
Spring Hill (historical)	2.8 miles	13
Burtons (historical)	3.1 miles	11
Bethera	3.4 miles	11
Thomas Corner	3.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234472. 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.