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Douglass, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winnsboro North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29014. The Survey maps it on the Lebanon quadrangle.

Douglass within Fairfield County

On record in Douglass

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Douglass between 1992 and 2018, burning about 524 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.4 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsROCKEY BRANCH
12 September 2002Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglass in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2015Thunderstorm WindDouglass$3,000Dispatch reported trees down on Old Douglass Road.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Old Buckhead2.8 miles14
Salem Crossroads3.7 miles14
Lebanon4.0 miles14
Woodward6.3 miles13
Rock Creek6.4 miles14
Feasterville6.6 miles12
Adger6.7 miles14
White Oak7.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1222080. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.