BlockDuncan Chapel, South Carolina
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Harleyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29018. The Survey maps it on the Wadboo Swamp quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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 Bowman quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS Bowman quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Bowman quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Orangeburg quadrangle1:125000
- 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
- 1982 USGS Wadboo Swamp quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
281 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Duncan Chapel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,793 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 42 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 | 98 |
| Debris and open burning | 90 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 42 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 27 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosinville | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Mount Zion | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Hudsontown | 6.4 miles | 18 | |
| Giant | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Badham | 7.4 miles | 18 | |
| Saint George | 7.6 miles | 18 | |
| Reevesville | 7.8 miles | 18 | |
| Sugar Hill | 7.8 miles | 18 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122597796 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241089. 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.