Millersville, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Bamberg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29003. It stands on Lemon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tony Hill Bay quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Millersville within Bamberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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 Lodge quadrangle1:62500
1920 USGS Lodge quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Lodge quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Lodge quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Orangeburg quadrangle1:125000
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
1982 USGS Tony Hill Bay quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Millersville (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,260 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 10 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	73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	62
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
16 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2019	Natural	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bamberg 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
Clear Pond	3.5 miles	15
Hughes	3.5 miles	15
Ehrhardt	5.7 miles	15
Farrell Crossroads	5.8 miles	18
Embree	7.2 miles	18
Springtown	7.8 miles	15
Midway	7.8 miles	18
Whetstone Crossroads	8.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230956. 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.