Log Jam Landing, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Summerton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29148. It lies near Goat Island. The Survey maps it on the Summerton quadrangle.

Log Jam Landing within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

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
1971 USGS Summerton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1979 USGS Summerton quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

336 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Log Jam Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,720 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 104 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/undetermined	125
Arson/incendiarism	104
Debris and open burning	88
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon 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
Rodgers	3.3 miles	13
Davis Crossroads	3.7 miles	13
Rowland	4.5 miles	17
Frierson	4.6 miles	17
White Oak	5.2 miles	17
Wyboo Plantation	5.9 miles	17
Shad Moss village	5.9 miles	17
Davis Station	6.0 miles	13

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 Q122596768

The 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 1231499. 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.