Fort Corner, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the McClellanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29429. The Survey maps it on the Ocean Bay quadrangle.

Fort Corner within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Ocean Bay quadrangle1:24000, 4 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

276 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of Fort Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,990 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 147 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	147
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	61
Debris and open burning	43
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
22 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Debris and open burning	9.7 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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
Awendaw	2.9 miles	11
Pineland	3.2 miles	11
Buck Hall	3.9 miles	11
Thompson Corner	4.0 miles	9
Laurel Hill Plantation	4.4 miles	11
Tibwin	6.1 miles	11
Moores Corner	8.4 miles	11
McClellanville	8.7 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 Q122555154

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 1231292. 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.