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Heineman, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Lane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29590. The Survey maps it on the Greeleyville quadrangle.

Heineman within Williamsburg County

On record in Heineman

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

1,022 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,022 fires within 5 miles of Heineman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,770 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 314 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/undetermined427
Arson/incendiarism314
Debris and open burning228
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking14
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Smoking6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heineman in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2015Flash FloodHeineman$30,000Portions of Union Church Road were reported flooded.
March 2008HailHeineman-A National Weather Service employee reported hail up to golf ball size. WFO Charleston South Carolina relayed the report.

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Edwards1.4 miles8
Greeleyville3.5 miles8
Lane3.6 miles8
New Market (historical)3.6 miles8
Gourdin5.2 miles9
Salters Depot5.2 miles8
Salters5.4 miles8
Carris6.2 miles8

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 Q122594377The 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 1245948. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.