Merritts Bridge, South Carolina

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.

• 1920 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:48000
• 1921 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1943 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Foxtown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 353 fires within 5 miles of Merritts Bridge (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,718 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 38 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Plunket (historical)
• Camp Long
• Earle (historical)
• Camp Gravatt
• Foxtown
• Seiglers Crossroads

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Merritts Bridge (historical): 10 past producers, 8 producers, 6 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Aiken County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236429. 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.