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Fort Motte, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Fort Motte-Lone Star census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29135. It stands on True Blue Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Motte quadrangle.

Fort Motte within Calhoun County

On record in Fort Motte

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Fort Motte between 1992 and 2018, burning about 899 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning33
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
27 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1993Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresCongaree Swamp National ParkKINGVILLE
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fort Motte: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Thorium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium. 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
Route U. S. 601Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Congaree River (Sample 1)Iron, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Congaree River (Sample 2)Iron, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Wiles Crossroads2.4 miles13
Singleton3.8 miles13
Totness5.7 miles13
Weeks Landing6.0 miles13
Saint Matthews6.8 miles13
Wertz Crossroads8.5 miles13
Lone Star9.6 miles13
Hammond Crossroads9.7 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on Fort MotteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5471720The 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 1247806. 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.