BlockReedy Creek Springs, South Carolina
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Blenheim census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29516. The Survey maps it on the Bingham quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
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 Gum Swamp quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Bingham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
188 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Reedy Creek Springs (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,044 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 48 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 | 57 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 48 |
| Debris and open burning | 46 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2007 | Natural | 17 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2010 | Smoking | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1232786. 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.