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Fort Moultrie, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Mount Pleasant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29482. It lies near Sullivans Island. The Survey maps it on the Fort Moultrie quadrangle.

Fort Moultrie within Charleston County

On record in Fort Moultrie

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 within a mile 7 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Fort Moultrie between 1993 and 2008, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
11 June 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 May 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 2008Arson/incendiarism10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 March 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 December 2000Debris and open burning30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 January 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 January 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fort Moultrie: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Thorium. 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
(Facility) Charleston SmelterChromiumPlant
Fort Moultrie QuadrangleZirconium, Titanium, Iron, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach
East Copper #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
R & L PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Shell Point (Mt. Pleasant Pit)Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Yaupon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sullivans Island1.2 miles17
Waterway Arms1.5 miles17
Osceola Heights1.9 miles17
Myrtle Acres2.0 miles17
Osceola Oaks2.0 miles17
Moultrie Heights2.2 miles17
Mount Pleasant2.4 miles17
Brook Green Meadow2.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1252614. 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.