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McPhersonville, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Yemassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29945. The Survey maps it on the McPhersonville quadrangle.

McPhersonville within Hampton County

On record in McPhersonville

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 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Stoney Creek Presbyterian Church, 1 block North of SC Route 17, McPhersonville, Hampton County, SC
Stoney Creek Presbyterian Church, 1 block North of SC Route 17, McPhersonville, Hampton County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

331 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 331 fires within 5 miles of McPhersonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,447 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 95 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined104
Arson/incendiarism95
Debris and open burning95
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton 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
Barkerville1.3 miles19
Davidson2.5 miles19
Blountville3.6 miles19
Yemassee3.6 miles19
Early Branch3.7 miles19
Fechtig5.8 miles16
Horsegall7.5 miles16
Cummings7.6 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on McPhersonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475187The 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 1224431. 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.