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Red Point, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Carlisle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29379. It stands on Neals Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leeds quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Red Point within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Red Point (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 909 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning25
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
3 September 2007Debris and open burning84 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2001Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Smoking2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2008Natural14 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Neal Shoals1.7 miles13
Pride (historical)2.0 miles13
Carlisle3.4 miles13
Santuc4.1 miles12
Meador (historical)4.5 miles12
Gregory (historical)5.5 miles12
Ada (historical)6.7 miles12
Red Town (historical)7.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1233013. 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.