Lower Topsaw Landing, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Plantersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29440. It stands on Pole Castle Branch. The Survey maps it on the Plantersville quadrangle.

Lower Topsaw Landing within Georgetown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1943 USGS Plantersville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Lower Topsaw Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,877 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 30 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	36
Arson/incendiarism	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
24 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 1998	Debris and open burning	300 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Georgetown 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
Upper Topsaw Landing	1.3 miles	9
Mount Tabor	2.4 miles	9
Yauhannah	2.6 miles	10
Saint Pauls	2.9 miles	9
Mulberry Landing	3.1 miles	11
Conch Creek	4.8 miles	10
Wachesaw Landing	4.8 miles	11
Ruinsville	4.9 miles	9

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 Q122597639

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 1231508. 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.