Old Buckhead, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Monticello-Salem Crossroads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29015. The Survey maps it on the Salem Crossroads quadrangle.

Old Buckhead within Fairfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1904 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Salem Crossroads quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Newberry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Old Buckhead between 1992 and 2019, burning about 508 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined	40
Debris and open burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
2 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.4 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	ROCKEY BRANCH
7 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2007	Natural	11 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield 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
Salem Crossroads	2.0 miles	14
Douglass	2.8 miles	14
Rock Creek	3.8 miles	14
Feasterville	4.8 miles	12
Blair	5.4 miles	15
Lebanon	5.7 miles	14
Lylesford (historical)	6.2 miles	15
Strother	6.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1237060. 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.