Moreland, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wando census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29450. It stands on Freshing Lead. The Survey maps it on the Kittredge quadrangle.

Moreland within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Kittredge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Moreland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,272 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 54 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	106
Debris and open burning	65
Arson/incendiarism	54
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
20 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	7.8 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	FROST
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2011	Natural	40 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 2012	Natural	6.7 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	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
Moreland Landing	0.3 miles	12
Cote Bas Landing	1.6 miles	12
Woodland	2.1 miles	12
Red Hill	2.4 miles	13
Charity	2.4 miles	13
Woodland Landing	2.7 miles	12
Cedar Creek Landing	3.1 miles	12
Hagan	3.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230037. 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.