Red Oaks, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Rock Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29730. The Survey maps it on the Rock Hill West quadrangle.

Red Oaks within York County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Rock Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Rock Hill West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Red Oaks between 1992 and 2016, burning about 170 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	43
Debris and open burning	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	3
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
29 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in York 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
Squire Estates	1.5 miles	16
Meadow Lakes	1.6 miles	16
Quiet Acres	1.7 miles	16
Whispering Hills	2.0 miles	16
Steele Crossing	2.1 miles	16
Pineridge	2.2 miles	16
College Farms	2.2 miles	16
Sunset Acres	2.2 miles	16

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 Q122572388

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 1233867. 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.