Oswald Park, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gilbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29054. It stands on Little Hollow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Murray West quadrangle.

Oswald Park within Lexington 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
1971 USGS Lake Murray West quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Newberry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Oswald Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 244 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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	48
Arson/incendiarism	25
Debris and open burning	23
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Smoking	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
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lexington 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
Mallard Bay	1.6 miles	14
Longview Plant	1.7 miles	14
Lake Village	1.7 miles	14
Lazy Day Acres	1.9 miles	14
Hollow Creek	2.1 miles	14
Ella	2.1 miles	14
Priceville	2.5 miles	12
Red Star	2.9 miles	14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122557319

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1244305. 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.