Connors, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Holly Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29059. The Survey maps it on the Holly Hill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Connors within Orangeburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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 Eutawville quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Eutawville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Eutawville quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Holly Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

623 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 623 fires within 5 miles of Connors (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,619 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 82 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	258
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	174
Arson/incendiarism	82
Smoking	40
Misuse of fire by a minor	34
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Natural	3
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg 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
Holly Hill	2.6 miles	17
Possum Town	3.2 miles	17
Green Town	3.4 miles	17
Eutawville	3.5 miles	17
Tugtown	3.7 miles	16
Bowyer	3.7 miles	17
Little Belvidere	4.4 miles	17
Saint Julian	4.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1242581. 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.