Gay Oaks, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the St. Helena Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29907. The Survey maps it on the Beaufort quadrangle.

Gay Oaks within Beaufort County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1944 USGS Fort Fremont quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Fort Fremont quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Gay Oaks between 1992 and 2019, burning about 368 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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	40
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	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 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2001	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	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
Sherwood Forest	0.2 miles	19
Oakwood Park	0.4 miles	19
Red Oak	0.6 miles	19
Sangster Village	0.8 miles	19
Hazel Farm	0.9 miles	19
Academy Estates	1.2 miles	19
Yacht Club Estates	1.3 miles	19
Bluff Farm	1.4 miles	19

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 Q122557337

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 1237204. 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.