Ferguson, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Eutawville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29048. The Survey maps it on the Eutawville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ferguson within Orangeburg 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 Eutawville quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Eutawville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Eutawville 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
1979 USGS Eutawville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

379 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 379 fires within 5 miles of Ferguson (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,035 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 47 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
Debris and open burning	144
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	116
Arson/incendiarism	47
Smoking	32
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg 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
Ferguson Landing	0.1 miles	17
Dorchee (historical)	1.3 miles	17
Eutaw Springs	2.1 miles	17
Fountain Lake	2.6 miles	17
Little Belvidere	3.4 miles	17
Eutawville	4.4 miles	17
Saint Julian	4.4 miles	17
Possum Town	4.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1242618. 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.