Irongate, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Beaufort-Port Royal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29906. It lies near Corn Island. The Survey maps it on the Laurel Bay quadrangle.

Irongate within Beaufort County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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 Okatie quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Okatie quadrangle1:62500
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
1962 USGS Laurel Bay quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Irongate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 530 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Arson/incendiarism	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
17 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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
Pinewood	0.7 miles	15
Capehart Housing Project	0.7 miles	15
Laurel Bay	0.7 miles	15
Peace Haven	2.6 miles	19
Roseida	2.6 miles	19
White Oaks	2.7 miles	15
Salt Creek	3.1 miles	19
Grays Hill	3.2 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1237250. 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.