Kitfield, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Moncks Corner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29461. It stands on California Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cordesville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kitfield within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

416 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Kitfield (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,079 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 115 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	154
Arson/incendiarism	115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	107
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mittenlane	1.8 miles	12
Simpson Crossing	2.0 miles	12
Wampee	2.1 miles	18
Pinopolis	2.1 miles	18
Santee Circle	2.1 miles	12
Moncks Corner	2.3 miles	18
Frazier Hill	2.3 miles	18
Stony Landing	2.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234537. 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.