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Pinewood, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Hopkins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29061. It stands on Horsepen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Congaree quadrangle.

Pinewood within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

301 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Pinewood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,214 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 43 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/undetermined132
Debris and open burning91
Arson/incendiarism43
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural5
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Other causesunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pinewood: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium. 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
Myers CreekIron, Thorium, Zirconium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial

Every working recorded in Richland 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
Hopkins1.7 miles17
Weston2.3 miles18
Bruner2.6 miles17
Congaree3.5 miles17
Lykes4.4 miles17
Horrel Hill4.6 miles17
Independents4.7 miles17
Mill Creek Estates5.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231663. 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.