Gregwood, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lancaster census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29720. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lancaster quadrangle.

Gregwood within Lancaster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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 Lancaster quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Gregwood between 1992 and 2019, burning about 561 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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	74
Debris and open burning	51
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
6 September 2013	Other causes	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2019	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster 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
Cedar Terrace	1.2 miles	14
Arrowood Estates	1.5 miles	13
Quail Haven	1.6 miles	13
Lancaster	1.7 miles	14
Westwood	1.9 miles	14
Lancaster Mill	2.0 miles	14
West Manor	2.1 miles	14
Caskey	2.4 miles	14

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 Q122555822

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 1241662. 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.