Port Bass, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Oakway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29643. The Survey maps it on the Oakway quadrangle.

Port Bass within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1886 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1896 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Oakway quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Port Bass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 369 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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
Debris and open burning	117
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	16
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	2

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
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN007
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-FRANKLIN-002
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee 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
Fairplay Shores	1.3 miles	18
South Union	2.7 miles	18
Fair Play	4.3 miles	17
Earles Grove	5.4 miles	17
Oakway	6.4 miles	18
Tabor	6.8 miles	18
Cross Roads	7.5 miles	17
Dixon Crossroads	7.9 miles	18

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 Q122570514

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 1243106. 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.