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Johnsville, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Smoaks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29481. The Survey maps it on the Branchville South quadrangle.

Johnsville within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

517 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 517 fires within 5 miles of Johnsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,695 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 139 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/undetermined173
Debris and open burning169
Arson/incendiarism139
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural6
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2009Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.7 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burning2.3 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton 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
Smoaks3.2 miles18
Springtown5.8 miles18
Padgetts6.9 miles18
Smyly7.1 miles18
Williams7.3 miles18
Colleton8.2 miles18
Ruffin8.7 miles18
Caldwell8.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1240660. 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.