Kings Grant, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Danwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29161. The Survey maps it on the Florence West quadrangle.

Kings Grant within Florence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1940 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1945 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

502 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 502 fires within 5 miles of Kings Grant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,972 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 98 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	161
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	149
Arson/incendiarism	98
Misuse of fire by a minor	52
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Smoking	11
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	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
6 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2003	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence 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
Colonial Forest	0.3 miles	11
Forest Lake South	0.5 miles	11
Savannah Grove	0.6 miles	11
Waterford	1.0 miles	11
Benson Acres	1.3 miles	11
South Point	1.6 miles	11
Arrowood	1.8 miles	11
Sunset Acres	1.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241995. 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.