BlockDaufuskie Landing, South Carolina
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Bluffton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29915. It lies near Daufuskie Island. The Survey maps it on the Fort Pulaski quadrangle.
On record in Daufuskie Landing
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Haig Point Tabby Ruins, Haig Point Road, Daufuskie Landingfederal building survey, 31 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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 Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Fort Pulaski quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Pulaski quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Daufuskie Landing between 1996 and 2017, burning about 564 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 May 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 May 2017 | Smoking | 54 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 480 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 March 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper River Landing | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| South Beach Villas | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Heritage Woods | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Harbour Town | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Greenwood Forest | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Sea Pines | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Calibogue Cay | 5.5 miles | 18 | |
| Fairway Oaks | 5.5 miles | 18 |
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 Q122572498 | 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 1244056. 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.