BlockNew Landing, South Carolina
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Grays-Tillman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29922. It lies near Sand Hills. The Survey maps it on the Pineland quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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 Pineland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Pineland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 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 Pineland quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Pineland quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
224 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of New Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,344 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 44 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 | 105 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 44 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groover Landing | 2.0 miles | 15 | |
| Myers (historical) | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Tarboro | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Cosby | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Robertville | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Berrys Landing | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Pineland | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| Tillman | 7.4 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 Q122589330 | 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 1231588. 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.