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Long Creek Landing, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cottageville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29472. The Survey maps it on the Cottageville quadrangle.

Long Creek Landing within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

280 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Long Creek Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,560 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 61 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 burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined97
Arson/incendiarism61
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Smoking2
Other causes1

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 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism40 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Long Creek Landing: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Edisto MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Edisto PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fishburne Creek MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Sandpit Road MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Sandy Run MineSandUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Colleton 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
Kelsey Cove Landing1.5 miles17
Goodhope Landing2.2 miles17
Prices Landing3.0 miles17
Red Oak Corner3.0 miles17
Cottageville4.1 miles17
Lowndes Landing4.6 miles16
Parkers Ferry Landing5.3 miles16
Gloverville5.4 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 Q122550386The 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 1231503. 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.