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Park City, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pamplico census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29505. The Survey maps it on the Florence East quadrangle.

Park City within Florence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

491 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 491 fires within 5 miles of Park City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,653 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 89 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
Debris and open burning162
Missing data/not specified/undetermined149
Arson/incendiarism89
Misuse of fire by a minor59
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural7
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes3

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
9 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence 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
Tara Village0.4 miles11
Tara Hills0.5 miles11
Howe0.7 miles11
Fenwick Grove0.7 miles9
South Side0.7 miles11
Bannockburn0.8 miles11
Brandon Woods1.0 miles9
Java1.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1242121. 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.