Loraine, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Denmark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29042. It stands on Stout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bamberg quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Loraine within Bamberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1919 USGS Bamberg quadrangle1:48000
1920 USGS Bamberg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Bamberg 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
1979 USGS Bamberg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Loraine (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 654 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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 burning	84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	63
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	5
Natural	5
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2011	Debris and open burning	8.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bamberg 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
Finland	1.2 miles	15
Ott (historical)	2.6 miles	15
Sato	3.0 miles	15
Sweden	3.3 miles	14
Bobcat Landing	3.5 miles	15
Denmark	3.6 miles	15
Bamberg	4.5 miles	15
Fogles (historical)	5.1 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230948. 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.