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.
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
- Stoney Creek Presbyterian Church, 1 block North of SC Route 17, McPhersonvillefederal building survey, 10 photographs
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.
- 1918 USGS Yemassee quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Yemassee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 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
- 1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Mc Phersonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
331 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 104 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 95 |
| Debris and open burning | 95 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barkerville | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| Davidson | 2.5 miles | 19 | |
| Blountville | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Yemassee | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Early Branch | 3.7 miles | 19 | |
| Fechtig | 5.8 miles | 16 | |
| Horsegall | 7.5 miles | 16 | |
| Cummings | 7.6 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.
| Wikipedia article on McPhersonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3475187 | 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 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.










