Garlington, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29325. It stands on Flannigans Branch. The Survey maps it on the Newberry NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Garlington within Laurens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Newberry NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Newberry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Garlington (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 324 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 17 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	26
Arson/incendiarism	17
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	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
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	COLONIAL
23 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	SWAFFORD
16 September 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2016	Natural	17 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	TRAILHEAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurens 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
Stomp Springs	3.5 miles	13
Renno	5.2 miles	12
Bonds Crossroads	6.2 miles	12
Huntington (historical)	7.1 miles	13
Neighbors Crossroads	7.4 miles	12
Philson Crossroads	8.1 miles	13
Dover (historical)	8.3 miles	12
Joanna	9.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234824. 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.