Partersville, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Elloree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29142. The Survey maps it on the Elloree quadrangle.

Partersville within Orangeburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1946 USGS Elloree quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Elloree quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

461 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 461 fires within 5 miles of Partersville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,983 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 53 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 burning	182
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	148
Arson/incendiarism	53
Smoking	30
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Natural	5
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg 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
Parler	1.3 miles	18
Santee	2.7 miles	17
Elloree	3.7 miles	13
Felderville	3.9 miles	18
Milligans	4.5 miles	17
Dantzler	6.4 miles	18
Vance	7.0 miles	17
Mill Creek	7.2 miles	17

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 Q122571152

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 1250026. 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.