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Okatie, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Ridgeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29927. It lies near Beech Island. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle.

Okatie within Jasper County

On record in Okatie

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Heyward-Hamilton House, Tabby Point Lane, Okatie, Jasper County, SC
Heyward-Hamilton House, Tabby Point Lane, Okatie, Jasper County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Callawassie Sugar Works, Sugar Mill Drive, Callawassie Island, Okatie, Jasper County, SC
Callawassie Sugar Works, Sugar Mill Drive, Callawassie Island, Okatie, Jasper County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Okatie between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,400 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
28 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2012Natural3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2000Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper 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
Jasper1.7 miles16
Switzerland5.5 miles15
Morgan6.4 miles17
Deerfield6.6 miles15
Hardeeville7.0 miles17
Mitchellville7.6 miles15
Baker Hill7.7 miles17
Boyd7.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231612. 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.