BlockPeeples, South Carolina
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Estill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29918. The Survey maps it on the Solomons Crossroads quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Peeples quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Peeples 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
- 1978 USGS Solomons Crossroads quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
118 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Peeples (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,423 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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 | 47 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 30 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1232195. 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.