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Oakdale, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Townville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29689. It stands on East Prong Little Beaver Dam Creek. The Survey maps it on the La France quadrangle.

Oakdale within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Oakdale between 1992 and 2019, burning about 747 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
8 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2011Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2011Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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
Double Springs2.6 miles17
The Shoals2.6 miles17
Rock Creek Acres2.7 miles17
Shadow Wood2.8 miles17
Leisure Village2.9 miles17
Townville3.5 miles17
Huntington Heights3.5 miles17
Bridgewater3.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236875. 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.