Oceanview, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the James Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29412. It stands on Downs Creek. The Survey maps it on the James Island quadrangle.

Oceanview within Charleston County

On record in Oceanview

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Unnamed Battery No. 1listed 1982 · 0.2 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1919 USGS James Island quadrangle1:21120, 2 printings
1943 USGS James Island quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1948 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS James Island quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1968 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS James Island quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS James Island quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Oceanview between 1999 and 2015, burning about 91 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 August 1999	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2015	Natural	75 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	7.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 April 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.4 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 March 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oceanview: 1 unknown, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	(Facility) Charleston Smelter	Chromium	Plant
	Folly Beach	Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Oswald Place	0.3 miles	15
Clarks Sound	0.3 miles	15
Oyster Point	0.4 miles	15
Old Orchard	0.5 miles	15
Seaside	0.6 miles	15
Teal Acres	0.7 miles	15
Honey Hill	0.7 miles	15
Three Trees	0.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231610. 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.