BlockPost Foot Landing, South Carolina
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Plantersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29440. It stands on Post Foot Branch. The Survey maps it on the Carvers Bay quadrangle.
On record in Post Foot Landing
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Black River Plantation Houselisted 1994 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1943 USGS Carvers Bay quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
313 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Post Foot Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,066 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 72 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 | 119 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 94 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 72 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramsey Grove | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Campfield | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Oatland | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Annieville | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Waterfored Estates | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Dunbar Landing | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Dunbar | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Lanes Creek | 3.4 miles | 9 |
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 Q122563872 | 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 1231684. 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.