Moores Corner, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the McClellanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29458. It stands on Jeremy Creek. The Survey maps it on the McClellanville quadrangle.

Moores Corner within Charleston County

On record in Moores Corner

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

McClellanville Historic Districtlisted 1982 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1942 USGS Mc Clellanville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Moores Corner between 1992 and 2018, burning about 3,623 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 87 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
Arson/incendiarism	87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75
Debris and open burning	62
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
17 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	SKIDDER
4 August 2006	Natural	21 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2002	Natural	18 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2007	Natural	5.4 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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
McClellanville	0.9 miles	11
Tibwin	2.7 miles	11
Collins Creek	5.0 miles	9
Laurel Hill Plantation	5.3 miles	11
South Santee	5.7 miles	9
Buck Hall	5.8 miles	11
Thompson Corner	6.4 miles	9
Wambaw Corner	6.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230035. 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.