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Judge Town, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the St. Stephen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29468. The Survey maps it on the Pineville quadrangle.

Judge Town within Berkeley County

On record in Judge Town

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

11 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

633 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 633 fires within 5 miles of Judge Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,214 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 148 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/undetermined272
Debris and open burning185
Arson/incendiarism148
Natural7
Other causes6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
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
9 September 2017Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Other causes5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Judge Town: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Santee Minerals MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Berkeley 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
Pineville0.6 miles18
Murrell (historical)0.7 miles18
Region Town (historical)1.1 miles18
Swamp Fox1.9 miles9
Old Peru1.9 miles9
Wing Road2.6 miles18
Russellville3.5 miles9
Saint Stephen5.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234326. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.