Dominicks, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kirksey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29666. The Survey maps it on the Kirksey quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dominicks within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1892 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1908 USGS Kirksey quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Kirksey quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Kirksey quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Dominicks (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 297 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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	47
Debris and open burning	34
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	4
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2016	Other causes	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood 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
Epworth	1.5 miles	15
Gaines Crossroads	2.3 miles	15
Phoenix	2.5 miles	15
Sand Ridge	3.8 miles	15
Cambridge (historical)	4.2 miles	15
Laco (historical)	4.3 miles	15
Breezewood	4.4 miles	15
Kirksey	4.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234090. 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.