Dunbarton, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kline-Snelling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29836. The Survey maps it on the Girard NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dunbarton within Barnwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

1920 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Girard NE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Dunbarton (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 428 acres in total. 13 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/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	13
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	MEDIAN
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	F7
23 August 2011	Natural	25 acres	Savannah River Forest	P AREA SUBSTATION
19 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 2008	Natural	16 acres	Savannah River Forest	81 FIRE
3 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2010	Natural	8.5 acres	Savannah River Forest	MONKEY ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell 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
Donora (historical)	2.1 miles	17
Patterson Mill	3.4 miles	16
Snelling	5.3 miles	16
Ashley Place (historical)	6.0 miles	18
Robbins (historical)	6.9 miles	18
Hattieville	6.9 miles	16
Boiling Springs	7.1 miles	16
Greenland (historical)	7.2 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1235461. 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.