Horsegall, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Estill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29944. It stands on Horsegall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grays quadrangle.

Horsegall within Hampton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1919 USGS Pineland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Pineland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Grays quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

269 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Horsegall between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,136 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 48 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	102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	77
Arson/incendiarism	48
Natural	20
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Other causes	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton 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
Cummings	4.1 miles	16
Fechtig	4.6 miles	16
Camp Branch	4.7 miles	16
Speaks Mill	5.6 miles	16
Nixville	5.7 miles	16
Almeda	5.9 miles	16
Early Branch	6.1 miles	19
Barkerville	6.3 miles	19

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 Q122546497

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 1232170. 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.