Osborn, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Ravenel-Hollywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29426. The Survey maps it on the Osborn quadrangle.

Osborn within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1918 USGS Cottageville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Cottageville quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Osborn quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

285 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 285 fires within 5 miles of Osborn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,792 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 69 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	102
Debris and open burning	93
Arson/incendiarism	69
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Jericho	1.6 miles	16
Adams Run	2.4 miles	18
Parkers Ferry	2.7 miles	16
Shiloh	2.7 miles	17
Laurel Hill	3.9 miles	18
Baptist Hill	4.4 miles	18
Capwells Crossroads	4.4 miles	16
Ponpon	4.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1225250. 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.