Peden Oaks, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29706. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle.

Peden Oaks within Chester County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

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
1969 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Peden Oaks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 360 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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	66
Debris and open burning	27
Arson/incendiarism	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Natural	3
Smoking	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	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester 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
Evans	1.2 miles	13
Pineview Lakes	1.5 miles	13
Forest Hills	1.5 miles	13
Hilltop Acres	1.9 miles	13
Brooklyn	2.7 miles	13
Chester	3.0 miles	13
Eureka Mill	3.0 miles	13
Ruckers Crossroads	3.0 miles	13

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 Q122552080

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 1230733. 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.