Red Town, South Carolina

12 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 Swift Run. The Survey maps it on the Whitmire North quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Red Town within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Whitmire North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Red Town (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 621 acres in total. 9 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	28
Debris and open burning	27
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Other causes	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
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
6 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2008	Natural	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2008	Natural	14 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	TYGER RIVER

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ada (historical)	2.7 miles	12
Delta	3.6 miles	12
Beaver Dam	3.8 miles	12
Santuc	3.8 miles	12
Goshen Hill	4.9 miles	12
Shady Grove (historical)	5.2 miles	13
Sartor Town	5.3 miles	12
Gregory (historical)	5.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1233014. 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.