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Mathis, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sycamore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29810. The Survey maps it on the Allendale quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mathis within Allendale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Mathis (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 543 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 17 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2018Natural10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allendale 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Grays Crossroads2.5 miles15
Seigling2.7 miles15
Hayes Crossroads3.0 miles15
Appleton3.2 miles15
Baldock5.0 miles16
Allendale5.2 miles15
Ulmer6.5 miles15
Sycamore6.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1233138. 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.