Lowndes Landing, South Carolina

16 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 Jacksonboro quadrangle.

Lowndes Landing within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1918 USGS Cottageville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Cottageville quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Jacksonboro quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Lowndes Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 725 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 29 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	32
Arson/incendiarism	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
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
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2012	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Parkers Ferry Landing	0.6 miles	16
Padgett Landing	1.6 miles	16
Pine Hill Landing	2.3 miles	16
Beck Landing	4.5 miles	16
Iron Crossroads	4.5 miles	16
Long Creek Landing	4.6 miles	17
Gloverville	5.2 miles	17
Kelsey Cove Landing	6.1 miles	17

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 Q122543523

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 1224220. 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.