Dalcho, South Carolina

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Latta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29565. The Survey maps it on the Latta quadrangle.

Dalcho within Dillon County

On record in Dalcho

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Catfish Creek Baptist Churchlisted 1975 · 0.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Latta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Dalcho between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,482 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 44 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	90
Debris and open burning	44
Arson/incendiarism	44
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Natural	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	3
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 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon 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
Mallory	1.9 miles	9
Oak Grove	2.8 miles	9
Forrest Hills	3.1 miles	7
Centerville	3.2 miles	7
Berrys Crossroads	3.2 miles	7
Latta	3.8 miles	7
Dothan	4.0 miles	7
Bass Crossroads	4.2 miles	7

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 Q122568258

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 1248767. 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.