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Danwood, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Danwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29541. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Effingham quadrangle.

Danwood within Florence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

585 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 585 fires within 5 miles of Danwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,035 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 158 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 burning188
Arson/incendiarism158
Missing data/not specified/undetermined149
Misuse of fire by a minor42
Equipment and vehicle use26
Smoking9
Other causes4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Debris and open burning20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence 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
Effingham2.0 miles10
Java2.4 miles10
Ashwood Estates3.0 miles11
Tara Village3.1 miles11
Elim3.1 miles10
South Side3.1 miles11
Perkins Crossroads3.2 miles10
Park City3.3 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241843. 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.