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Pineland, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the McClellanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29458. The Survey maps it on the Awendaw quadrangle.

Pineland within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

281 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Pineland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,848 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 148 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
Arson/incendiarism148
Missing data/not specified/undetermined66
Debris and open burning51
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Debris and open burning9.7 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National Forestsnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsBUBBSY
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pineland in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPineland$500The Sheriff Department reported a tree down on Halfway Creek Road in Awendaw, South Carolina.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPineland-A Charleston County emergency manager reported a tree down along Highway 17 near the intersection of Sam Thompson Drive.

Every storm recorded in Charleston 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
Awendaw1.4 miles11
Buck Hall1.6 miles11
Laurel Hill Plantation2.2 miles11
Fort Corner3.2 miles10
Tibwin4.7 miles11
Thompson Corner5.8 miles9
McClellanville7.4 miles11
Moores Corner7.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1225477. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.