Gannon, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Ravenel-Hollywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29449. It stands on Swinton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adams Run quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Gannon within Charleston County

On record in Gannon

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.

Summit Plantation Houselisted 1983 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1919 USGS Edisto Island quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Edisto Island quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Adams Run quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Gannon (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,253 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 48 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 burning	68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60
Arson/incendiarism	48
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	2
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
6 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 2012	Natural	54 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	41 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	98 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gibson	1.3 miles	18
Laroche	2.4 miles	18
Laurel Hill	2.4 miles	18
Yonges Island	2.5 miles	17
Wadmalaw Island	2.5 miles	17
Meggett	2.9 miles	17
Bears Bluff	3.2 miles	18
Baptist Hill	3.2 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1252876. 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.