Nevadum, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Ridgeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29936. It lies near Big Island. The Survey maps it on the Ridgeland quadrangle.

Nevadum 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.

1920 USGS Okatie quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Okatie 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 Ridgeland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

464 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 464 fires within 5 miles of Nevadum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,950 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 113 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	190
Debris and open burning	134
Arson/incendiarism	113
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	45 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina 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
Old House	0.4 miles	15
Boyd	1.0 miles	15
Salvesbarg Landing	2.4 miles	15
Murad	2.8 miles	15
Bolon Hall Landing	3.4 miles	15
Knowles	3.9 miles	19
Grahamville	4.1 miles	15
Ridgeland	5.1 miles	15

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 Q122557021

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 1249784. 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.