Pinckney Colony, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Bluffton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29909. It stands on Okatee River. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle.

Pinckney Colony within Beaufort County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1920 USGS Okatie quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Okatie quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Pinckney Colony between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,359 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 26 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	71
Debris and open burning	31
Arson/incendiarism	26
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Fireworks	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	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	149 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2012	Natural	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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
Cherry Point Landing	1.2 miles	16
Baileys Landing	2.1 miles	16
Barrell Landing	2.3 miles	16
Chelsea	2.6 miles	16
Copp Landing	2.9 miles	17
Pinckney Landing	3.6 miles	17
Fripp Landing	3.9 miles	17
Riverdale	5.0 miles	15

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 Q122547928

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 1231653. 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.