BlockMariners Watch, South Carolina
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Beaufort-Port Royal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29935. It stands on Battery Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beaufort quadrangle.
On record in Mariners Watch
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 3 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Union Church of Port Royallisted 2010 · 0.5 miles away
F.W. Scheper Storelisted 2004 · 0.6 miles away- Port Royal Schoollisted 2014 · 0.3 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1944 USGS Fort Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Fort Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
104 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Mariners Watch between 1992 and 2019, burning about 355 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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 | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Royal | 0.3 miles | 19 | |
| Waterford Place | 0.9 miles | 19 | |
| Riverwind | 1.0 miles | 19 | |
| Port Royal Landing | 1.2 miles | 19 | |
| Battery Marina Village | 1.4 miles | 19 | |
| Magnolia Bluff | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Orange Grove | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Tanglewood | 2.1 miles | 19 |
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 Q122555096 | 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 1237272. 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.