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New Cut Landing, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wadmalaw Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29487. It stands on Church Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wadmalaw Island quadrangle.

New Cut Landing within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of New Cut Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 775 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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/undetermined74
Debris and open burning63
Arson/incendiarism36
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 June 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 2011Arson/incendiarism23 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of New Cut Landing: 5 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Land Associates PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayUnknownSedimentary
Land Associates PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducer
WadmalawIron, Thorium, Zirconium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach
Banks Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Banks Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chaplan Landing MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Cleckley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Land Associates Mine # 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Truluck Pit SouthSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Truluck Pit SouthSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Clementia (historical)1.4 miles17
Goshen2.0 miles17
Yonges Island2.9 miles17
Meggett3.3 miles17
Point Pleasant (historical)3.5 miles19
Wadmalaw Island3.9 miles17
Hollywood3.9 miles17
Humbert Woods4.1 miles22

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 Q122568941The 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 1231586. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.