Polly Landing, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Summerton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29148. The Survey maps it on the Saint Paul quadrangle.

Polly Landing within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Summerton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1980 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

328 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Polly Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,950 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 69 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	119
Debris and open burning	91
Arson/incendiarism	69
Smoking	14
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Natural	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon 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
North Santee	0.8 miles	15
Adams Landing	1.4 miles	15
Saint Paul	5.1 miles	15
Davis Crossroads	6.5 miles	13
Log Jam Landing	6.7 miles	13
Belser Crossroads	7.3 miles	15
Summerton	7.9 miles	13
Rodgers	9.5 miles	13

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 Q122562350

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 1231675. 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.