Greenland, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kline-Snelling census division. The Survey maps it on the New Ellenton SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Greenland within Barnwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1920 USGS Talatha quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Talatha quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Talatha quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS New Ellenton SE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Greenland (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 238 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Natural	28
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Firearms and explosives use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	not named
30 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	ATTA 0930
25 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	ATTA 0925
24 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	ATTA 0924
19 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	ATTA 919
16 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	ATTA COMPLEX
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	F7
3 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell 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
Donora (historical)	6.7 miles	17
Dunbarton (historical)	7.2 miles	17
Leigh (historical)	8.1 miles	18
Ashley Place (historical)	8.2 miles	18
Snelling	8.8 miles	16
Robbins (historical)	9.4 miles	18
Ellenton (historical)	9.6 miles	17
Patterson Mill	10.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1235484. 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.