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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.

Neyles within Colleton County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

237 since 1992

Regional 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 burning90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Arson/incendiarism45
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1998Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2002Arson/incendiarism15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton 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
Pringle Bend2.2 miles17
Burnt Church Crossroads3.7 miles16
Drawdy3.9 miles17
Ritter4.5 miles17
Iron Crossroads5.0 miles16
Thayer5.1 miles17
Ashepoo Crossing5.7 miles17
Ashepoo5.9 miles18

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 NeylesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60749140The 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.