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Grays Landing, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1982. It lies in ZIP code area 30906. It stands on Berryhill Gut. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle.

Grays Landing within Aiken 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.

Fires near this place

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Grays Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 724 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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 burning35
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
28 September 1994Debris and open burning6.0 acresSavannah River Forestnot named
14 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-RICHMOND-007
29 August 2008Naturalunder an acreSavannah River ForestCAT FACE FIRE
18 August 2011Natural8.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BURKE-013
11 August 2001Naturalunder an acreSavannah River ForestDETAILER
24 July 2008Naturalunder an acreSavannah River ForestBRINKLEY FIRE
22 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grays Landing: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Cobalt, Manganese. 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
Silver BluffCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Aiken 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
Cowden2.2 miles19
Bush (historical)3.2 miles19
Hankinson4.0 miles19
Jackson4.4 miles19
Kathwood5.0 miles19
Browns Hill6.0 miles19
Twiggs8.2 miles21
Hawthorne (historical)8.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231339. 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.