Dover, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Antreville-Lowndesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29620. It stands on Park Creek. The Survey maps it on the Abbeville West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dover within Abbeville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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
1948 USGS Abbeville West quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Dover (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 363 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 28 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	55
Debris and open burning	48
Arson/incendiarism	28
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	7
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
9 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.6 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2005	Smoking	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Abbeville 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
Brownlee Crossroads	2.5 miles	12
Fairs Crossroads	4.1 miles	13
Cold Spring	4.5 miles	15
Iris	5.0 miles	13
Warrenton	5.5 miles	15
Monterey (historical)	5.6 miles	12
Antreville	5.7 miles	12
Buck Stand	6.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1229063. 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.