Harvin, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Alcolu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29001. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tearcoat Branch quadrangle.

Harvin within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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 Mayesville quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Mayesville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Mayesville 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
1983 USGS Tearcoat Branch quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

344 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Harvin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,297 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 65 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	152
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100
Arson/incendiarism	65
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	4

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 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon 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
Alcolu	1.3 miles	16
Trinity Cross Roads	2.9 miles	16
Manning	5.1 miles	16
Durant	5.8 miles	16
Wilson Crossroads	6.1 miles	16
Country Club Estates	6.6 miles	16
Paxville	7.1 miles	14
Gable	7.5 miles	16

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 Q122567134

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 1223076. 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.