Milbury, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Allendale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29810. It stands on Little Brier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bull Pond quadrangle.

Milbury within Allendale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1920 USGS Peeples quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Peeples quadrangle1:62500
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
1978 USGS Bull Pond quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Milbury between 1992 and 2020, burning about 509 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
26 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Natural	14 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2019	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allendale 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
King Creek Landing	2.8 miles	15
Fennell Hill Landing	3.2 miles	15
Gravel Hill (historical)	3.7 miles	15
Red Bluff Landing	3.8 miles	15
Concord Crossroads	4.6 miles	15
Ruddell (historical)	5.4 miles	15
Cohens Bluff Landing	5.8 miles	15
Johnsons Landing	5.9 miles	15

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 Q122558463

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 1227805. 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.