McDonalds, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Clio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29570. The Survey maps it on the Clio quadrangle.

McDonalds within Marlboro County

On record in McDonalds

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 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

McLaurin-Roper-McColl Farmsteadlisted 2012 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1942 USGS Rockingham quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Clio quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Laurinburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

294 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 294 fires within 5 miles of McDonalds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,231 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 91 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	91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85
Debris and open burning	75
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Smoking	7
Natural	4

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
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	A MESS
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marlboro County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of McDonalds: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Marlboro 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
Red Bluff	2.1 miles	8
Tatum	2.7 miles	10
Clio	2.9 miles	8
McColl	3.2 miles	10
Hebron	4.1 miles	8
Beauty Spot (historical)	4.8 miles	8
McInnis (historical)	5.1 miles	8
Adamsville Crossroads	5.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1232764. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.