Myers, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Grays-Tillman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29922. The Survey maps it on the Brighton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Myers within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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 Shirley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Myers (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 868 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 27 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	76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	9
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-EFFINGHAM-001
7 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper 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
New Landing	2.4 miles	17
Cosby	2.8 miles	17
Robertville	4.3 miles	17
Groover Landing	4.3 miles	15
Tarboro	5.3 miles	17
Pineland	6.4 miles	17
Berrys Landing	8.7 miles	15
Tillman	9.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241366. 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.