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Cook Landing, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hardeeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29927. The Survey maps it on the Limehouse quadrangle.

Cook Landing within Jasper 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.

Fires near this place

471 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 471 fires within 5 miles of Cook Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,306 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 100 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/undetermined211
Debris and open burning130
Arson/incendiarism100
Natural9
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSavannah RefugesTAXI FIRE
7 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cook Landing: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jordan Mine - Highway 46SandUnknownSedimentary
Ward #1 MineSandUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Jasper 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
Good Hope Landing0.7 miles17
Levy1.6 miles15
Limehouse3.9 miles15
Glasgow Landing4.2 miles17
Turnbridge Landing4.6 miles15
Hugers Settlement (historical)7.5 miles17
Hardeeville7.6 miles17
General Hamiltons Settlement (historical)7.7 miles17

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 Q122554687The 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 1231193. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.