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Gadsden Place, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Summerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29483. The Survey maps it on the Summerville quadrangle.

Gadsden Place within Dorchester County

On record in Gadsden Place

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

552 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 552 fires within 5 miles of Gadsden Place between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,747 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 93 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/undetermined209
Debris and open burning158
Arson/incendiarism93
Misuse of fire by a minor74
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Debris and open burning4.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2001Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dorchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Gadsden Place: 7 unknowns, 7 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Evergreen MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Evergreen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Murray PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Dorchester Brick Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Dorchester Mine EastClayUnknownSedimentary
Dorchester Mine EastClayPast Producer
Dorchester Mine WestClayUnknownSedimentary
Dorchester Mine WestClayPast Producer
Kenyon Mine EastClayUnknownSedimentary
Kenyon Mine EastClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dorchester 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
Brownsville0.3 miles19
Robynwyn0.8 miles19
Gadsden Acres0.8 miles19
Summerville1.1 miles19
Azalea Estates1.1 miles19
Flowertown Estates1.1 miles19
Warington1.1 miles19
Millwood1.2 miles19

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 Q122568400The 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 1241106. 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.