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Legareville, South Carolina

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Johns Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29455. It stands on Chaplin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Legareville quadrangle.

Legareville within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Legareville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 593 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning37
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural1

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
26 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Legareville: 1 unknown, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Edmondson PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducer
Edmondson Hauling Pit 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Edmondson Hauling Pit 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Charleston 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
Huskum Corner Cross Roads1.4 miles22
Kiawah Island3.6 miles22
Cedar Springs4.6 miles22
Stafford Heights4.7 miles22
Miller Hill4.7 miles22
Fenwick Crossroads4.8 miles22
Grimball Shores5.0 miles15
Shoreline Farms5.3 miles22

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122550031The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1223873. 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.