Mepkin, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29461. It stands on Mepkin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kittredge quadrangle.

Mepkin within Berkeley County

On record in Mepkin

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.

Taveau Churchlisted 1978 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1919 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Kittredge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Mepkin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,841 acres in total. None started naturally. 67 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	77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	72
Arson/incendiarism	67
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
28 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	LTD
12 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	RAIN DELAY
5 July 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Ellwood	0.9 miles	12
Pimlico	1.3 miles	12
Childsbury	1.6 miles	12
Strawberry Landing	1.6 miles	12
Rice Hope	2.0 miles	12
Wappoola	2.3 miles	12
Saw Mill	2.6 miles	12
Seaton	3.0 miles	19

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.

Wikidata item Q122555922

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 1246623. 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.