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Pineforest Inn, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Summerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29483. The Survey maps it on the Summerville quadrangle.

Pineforest Inn within Dorchester County

On record in Pineforest Inn

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

498 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 498 fires within 5 miles of Pineforest Inn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,555 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 86 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/undetermined181
Debris and open burning148
Arson/incendiarism86
Misuse of fire by a minor70
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Debris and open burning4.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2001Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dorchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Pineforest Inn: 8 unknowns, 7 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Evergreen MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Evergreen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Murray MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Murray PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Dorchester Brick Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Dorchester Mine EastClayUnknownSedimentary
Dorchester Mine EastClayPast Producer
Dorchester Mine WestClayUnknownSedimentary
Dorchester Mine WestClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dorchester 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
Shephard Park0.3 miles19
Tea Farm0.4 miles19
Rosehill0.5 miles19
Warington0.6 miles19
Country Club Estates0.7 miles18
Millwood0.7 miles19
Gadsden Acres0.8 miles19
Twin Oaks0.9 miles19

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 Q122544639The 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 1241171. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.