Lumber, South Carolina

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Society Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29540. The Survey maps it on the Mont Clare quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lumber within Darlington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Mont Clare quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Lumber (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,274 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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	66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	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
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	150 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lumber (historical): 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Buckholtz Creek	Titanium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial

Every working recorded in Darlington 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
Mont Clare	1.6 miles	6
Gandy	3.0 miles	6
Robbins Neck	3.3 miles	6
Dovesville	4.7 miles	6
Mechanicsville	5.7 miles	7
Plumfield Landing	5.8 miles	8
Springville (historical)	5.8 miles	7
Floyd	6.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1240996. 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.