Milmont Shores, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chapin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29036. The Survey maps it on the Lake Murray West quadrangle.

Milmont Shores within Lexington 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.

1904 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
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
1971 USGS Lake Murray West quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Newberry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Milmont Shores between 1992 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60
Debris and open burning	43
Arson/incendiarism	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lexington 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
Snug Harbor	0.9 miles	14
Green Valley Estates	1.7 miles	16
Shady Acres	1.8 miles	14
Dutchman Shores	2.8 miles	14
Ella	3.7 miles	14
Lake Point	4.4 miles	14
Chapin	4.4 miles	16
Climax	4.6 miles	14

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 Q122556489

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 1244274. 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.