Neyles, South Carolina
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Walterboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29488. It stands on Pringle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Neyles quadrangle.
On record in Neyles
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Ravenwood Plantationlisted 1997
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.
- 1918 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Walterboro 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
- 1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Neyles quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
237 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Neyles between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,753 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 45 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 | 90 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 89 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 45 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2008 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.1 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 July 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pringle Bend | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Burnt Church Crossroads | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Drawdy | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Ritter | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Iron Crossroads | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Thayer | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| Ashepoo Crossing | 5.7 miles | 17 | |
| Ashepoo | 5.9 miles | 18 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Neyles | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q60749140 | 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 1249870. 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.









