Moorefield, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cross census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29436. The Survey maps it on the Cross quadrangle.

Moorefield within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1920 USGS Chicora quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Chicora quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Chicora 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
1979 USGS Cross quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

322 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 322 fires within 5 miles of Moorefield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,652 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 82 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	128
Debris and open burning	88
Arson/incendiarism	82
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Fireworks	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2006	Natural	86 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	28 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
Mudville (historical)	1.4 miles	18
Cross	2.9 miles	18
Moss Grove	3.1 miles	18
Chicora	3.5 miles	18
Legare (historical)	3.5 miles	18
Pigeon Bay (historical)	3.9 miles	18
Cross Cross Roads	4.1 miles	18
Nelson Hill	4.3 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231559. 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.