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Living Inn, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Prosperity census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29127. It stands on Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Murray West quadrangle.

Living Inn within Newberry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Living Inn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 277 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2

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
8 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newberry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Living Inn: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
Kuykendall ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Newberry 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
Macedonia1.2 miles14
Fairview1.6 miles15
Lowmans Crossroads (historical)1.7 miles14
Jug Hole2.0 miles14
Wheeland3.2 miles15
Boland Crossroads (historical)3.4 miles15
Slighs5.9 miles15
Little Mountain6.3 miles15

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 Q122549699The 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 1228733. 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.