BlockPleasant View, South Carolina
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sardis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29161. The Survey maps it on the Sardis 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
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1940 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Sardis quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
360 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 360 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant View (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,867 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 74 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 | 135 |
| Debris and open burning | 107 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 74 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2001 | Natural | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timmonsville | 1.7 miles | 10 | |
| Cartersville | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Hollman Crossroads | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Sansbury Crossroads | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Kelly Farms | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Oakdale | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Village Green | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Sardis | 5.7 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1242132. 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.