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Little Belvidere, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Eutawville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29048. The Survey maps it on the Eutawville quadrangle.

Little Belvidere within Orangeburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

537 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 537 fires within 5 miles of Little Belvidere between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,922 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 66 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 burning207
Missing data/not specified/undetermined164
Arson/incendiarism66
Smoking35
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Equipment and vehicle use22
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Natural4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2009Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg 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
Eutawville1.0 miles17
Possum Town1.2 miles17
Fountain Lake1.2 miles17
Green Town1.3 miles17
Eutaw Springs1.6 miles17
Saint Julian1.9 miles17
Dorchee (historical)2.3 miles17
Ferguson Landing3.3 miles17

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 Q122595418The 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 1706308. 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.