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.
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
Midway Plantationlisted 1976
Oakland Plantationlisted 1975
Zante Plantationlisted 1976
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1946 USGS Elloree quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 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
- 1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Fort Motte quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
92 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Congaree Swamp National Park | KINGVILLE |
| 1 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route U. S. 601 | Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium | Unknown | Placer , Modern , Fluvial | |
| Congaree River (Sample 1) | Iron, Titanium, Thorium | Unknown | Placer , Modern , Fluvial | |
| Congaree River (Sample 2) | Iron, Titanium, Thorium | Unknown | Placer , Modern , Fluvial |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wiles Crossroads | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Singleton | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Totness | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Weeks Landing | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Matthews | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Wertz Crossroads | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Lone Star | 9.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hammond Crossroads | 9.7 miles | 13 |
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 Motte | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5471720 | 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 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.








