Greenplains, South Carolina

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Society Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29550. The Survey maps it on the Dovesville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Greenplains within Darlington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Dovesville quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

369 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 369 fires within 5 miles of Greenplains (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,368 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 58 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	162
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	107
Arson/incendiarism	58
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	12
Natural	11
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Greenplains (historical): 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium, Clay, Titanium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cedar Creek	Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial
Harris Creek	Titanium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial
Winburn	Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Darlington 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
Birdstown Crossroads	1.3 miles	6
Antioch	2.9 miles	6
Green Hill	3.6 miles	14
Hunts Crossroads	4.7 miles	14
Leavensworth (historical)	5.3 miles	6
Sherwood Forest	6.7 miles	14
Lakewood	6.7 miles	14
Dovesville	7.0 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1240878. 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.