Groover Landing, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Grays-Tillman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29922. The Survey maps it on the Hardeeville NW quadrangle.

Groover Landing within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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 Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hardeeville NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Groover Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,085 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 39 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	97
Arson/incendiarism	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2008	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-EFFINGHAM-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper 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
New Landing	2.0 miles	17
Myers (historical)	4.3 miles	15
Berrys Landing	4.4 miles	15
Tarboro	4.7 miles	17
Tillman	6.1 miles	15
Cosby	6.8 miles	17
Robertville	7.1 miles	17
Pineland	8.5 miles	17

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 Q122549295

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 1245852. 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.