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Ferguson Landing, 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.

Ferguson Landing 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.

Fires near this place

388 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 388 fires within 5 miles of Ferguson Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,080 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 burning151
Missing data/not specified/undetermined117
Arson/incendiarism47
Smoking32
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2009Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ferguson (historical)0.1 miles17
Dorchee (historical)1.2 miles17
Eutaw Springs2.0 miles17
Fountain Lake2.6 miles17
Little Belvidere3.3 miles17
Eutawville4.3 miles17
Saint Julian4.3 miles17
Possum Town4.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231280. 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.