Old Joe, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wando census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29450. The Survey maps it on the Huger quadrangle.

Old Joe within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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 Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Huger quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

487 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 487 fires within 5 miles of Old Joe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,596 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 155 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	161
Arson/incendiarism	155
Debris and open burning	137
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	7.8 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	FROST
20 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	FLOYD
11 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	POWERLINE
10 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	DRIVE BY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Smith	2.0 miles	13
Huger	2.8 miles	13
Red Hill	3.3 miles	13
Cedar Creek Landing	3.9 miles	12
Green Bay	4.0 miles	13
Richmond	4.0 miles	12
Spring Hill (historical)	4.0 miles	13
Charity	4.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231614. 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.