Fripp Landing, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Bluffton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29909. It sits by Chechessee Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Spring Island quadrangle.

Fripp Landing within Beaufort County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1920 USGS Okatie quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Okatie quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Spring Island quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Fripp Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 841 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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	43
Arson/incendiarism	20
Debris and open burning	20
Natural	3
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 June 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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
Riverdale	1.2 miles	15
Pinckney Landing	1.3 miles	17
Chelsea	2.1 miles	16
Baileys Landing	2.2 miles	16
Copp Landing	3.7 miles	17
Pinckney Colony	3.9 miles	16
Cherry Point Landing	4.2 miles	16
Oakmont	5.2 miles	15

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 Q122565870

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 1244057. 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.