Meadow Oaks, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hartsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29550. The Survey maps it on the Hartsville South quadrangle.

Meadow Oaks within Darlington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Hartsville South quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Camden quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Camden South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

358 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 358 fires within 5 miles of Meadow Oaks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,419 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 55 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 burning	134
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	97
Arson/incendiarism	55
Misuse of fire by a minor	29
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Natural	10
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 2018	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Natural	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington 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
Lakefield Circle	0.8 miles	14
Georgia Estates	1.4 miles	14
Bladen	1.5 miles	14
Kingsville Heights	1.6 miles	14
Kalmia Place	1.7 miles	14
Pine Acres	1.8 miles	14
Forest Acres	2.1 miles	14
West Hartsville	2.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1240921. 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.