Martins Landing, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Ravenel-Hollywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29426. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonboro quadrangle.

Martins Landing within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1918 USGS Cottageville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Cottageville quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Jacksonboro quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Martins Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 546 acres in total. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
7 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 June 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 June 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 June 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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
Canady Landing	2.0 miles	16
Parkers Ferry	5.8 miles	16
Delemar Crossroads	5.8 miles	16
Ponpon	6.0 miles	16
Osborn	6.6 miles	16
Warren Crossroads	6.6 miles	16
Shiloh	6.8 miles	17
Jericho	7.1 miles	16

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 Q111908905

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 1231520. 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.