Leigh, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kline-Snelling census division. The Survey maps it on the Girard NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Leigh within Barnwell County

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.

1920 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Girard NW quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Leigh (historical) between 1992 and 2017, burning about 333 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 6 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
Natural	22
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	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	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	BRAKE FIRE
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	6.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	B-LINE
21 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	not named
16 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	CROSSTIE
13 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	400 D
11 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	SPLIT
29 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	SHORT TIMER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell 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
Ellenton (historical)	2.2 miles	17
Ashley Place (historical)	4.2 miles	18
Robbins (historical)	4.5 miles	18
Hattieville	8.0 miles	16
Greenland (historical)	8.1 miles	18
Dunbarton (historical)	9.3 miles	17
Donora (historical)	10.7 miles	17
Patterson Mill	12.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1235501. 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.