Richmond, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29434. It stands on Mayrant Lead. The Survey maps it on the Kittredge quadrangle.

Richmond within Berkeley County

On record in Richmond

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Cooper River Historic Districtlisted 2003 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1919 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Kittredge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Richmond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,346 acres in total. None started naturally. 67 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	125
Debris and open burning	86
Arson/incendiarism	67
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	RAIN DELAY
31 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Cedar Creek Landing	1.6 miles	12
Hagan	2.0 miles	12
Comingtee	2.1 miles	12
Hagan Landing	2.2 miles	12
Woodland Landing	2.8 miles	12
Woodland	3.0 miles	12
Rice Hope	3.1 miles	12
Saw Mill	3.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231727. 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.