BlockMark Island, South Carolina
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the St. Helena Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29907. It stands on Mulligan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beaufort quadrangle.
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
131 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Mark Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 475 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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 | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 35 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | 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 |
| 5 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 2007 | 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 |
| 4 July 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Point | 0.6 miles | 19 | |
| Partridge Woods | 1.1 miles | 19 | |
| Red Bluff Estates | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| Walling Grove | 1.4 miles | 19 | |
| Walnut Hill | 1.4 miles | 19 | |
| Marsh Hawk | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Pepper Hill | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| James Byrnes Estates | 1.7 miles | 19 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1237273. 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.