Macbeth, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Bonneau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29431. The Survey maps it on the Bonneau quadrangle.

Macbeth within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Bonneau quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Bonneau quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

399 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 399 fires within 5 miles of Macbeth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,416 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 127 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	136
Arson/incendiarism	127
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	107
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
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
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1999	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 Berkeley 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
Simpson Crossing	1.2 miles	12
Santee Circle	1.7 miles	12
Bonneau	2.8 miles	9
Richardson Landing	2.8 miles	9
Kitfield (historical)	3.1 miles	12
Cherry Hill	3.2 miles	12
Wampee	3.4 miles	18
Bonneau Beach	3.8 miles	18

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 Q122554437

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 1229963. 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.