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Pringle Bend, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Walterboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29488. It stands on Pringle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Neyles quadrangle.

Pringle Bend within Colleton 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

463 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 463 fires within 5 miles of Pringle Bend between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,393 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 73 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 burning199
Missing data/not specified/undetermined165
Arson/incendiarism73
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pringle Bend: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Walker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Walker Waterboro PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Colleton 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
Drawdy2.0 miles17
Neyles2.2 miles17
Thayer2.8 miles17
Ritter4.6 miles17
Davis Hill5.4 miles17
Iron Crossroads5.5 miles16
Drigger Crossroads5.6 miles17
Walterboro5.8 miles17

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 Q122570081The 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 1250247. 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.