Davis Landing, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Centenary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29571. It lies near Knife Island. The Survey maps it on the Centenary quadrangle.

Davis Landing within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1947 USGS Centenary quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Davis Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,139 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 33 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	33
Debris and open burning	33
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	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
28 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2010	Natural	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2002	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 Marion 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 Davis Landing: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Asphalt Products Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary
	Asphalt Products Pit No. 7	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Centenary	2.6 miles	8
Ariel Cross Road	3.4 miles	8
Rains	4.9 miles	8
Eulonia	4.9 miles	8
Cartwheel Landing	4.9 miles	8
Friendship	6.8 miles	7
Tabernacle	7.2 miles	7
Pendeboro	7.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231213. 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.