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Fersners, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Orangeburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29115. The Survey maps it on the Orangeburg North quadrangle.

Fersners within Orangeburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

340 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 340 fires within 5 miles of Fersners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 867 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 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 burning194
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism16
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Natural8
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fersners: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gifford-Hill Clay PitClayUnknownSedimentary
Gifford-Hill Clay PitClayPast Producer
Jamison Clay MineClayProducerSedimentary
Jamison Clay PitClayProducer

Every working 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
Wren Village2.2 miles13
Palmetto Garden2.5 miles13
Rosewood2.7 miles13
Camburg Acres2.8 miles13
Woodberry2.8 miles13
Parlerdale3.2 miles13
Bonneville3.2 miles13
Williams Plaza3.6 miles18

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 Q122544436The 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 1231281. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.