Farewell Corner, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29450. The Survey maps it on the Shulerville quadrangle.

Farewell Corner within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1943 USGS Shulerville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Farewell Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,244 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 105 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
Arson/incendiarism	105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Debris and open burning	32
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2

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 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	TIMBER JACK
30 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	SHOTGUN
21 August 1999	Natural	4.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	LIGHTNING II
17 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	TRAILBLAZER
13 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	LIGHTNING I

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Bethera	2.6 miles	11
Wrangle Town (historical)	3.6 miles	11
Tiger Corner (historical)	3.7 miles	8
Beufordtown	4.2 miles	8
Oak Corner	4.3 miles	8
Spring Head (historical)	4.4 miles	11
Savanna Creek	4.4 miles	9
Razorville (historical)	4.5 miles	11

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 Q122541092

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 1247730. 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.