Luther, 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 Long Gall Branch. The Survey maps it on the Denmark quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Luther 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 Denmark quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Luther (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 602 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 16 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	64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47
Arson/incendiarism	16
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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
30 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	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
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	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
Garris (historical)	3.2 miles	15
Denmark	3.5 miles	15
Sato	3.6 miles	15
Govan	3.7 miles	16
Ott (historical)	4.2 miles	15
Springtown	4.8 miles	15
Fogles (historical)	4.8 miles	15
Lees	6.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230949. 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.