Rodgers, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Manning census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29148. The Survey maps it on the Summerton quadrangle.

Rodgers within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Summerton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1979 USGS Summerton quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

631 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 631 fires within 5 miles of Rodgers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,896 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 139 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	253
Debris and open burning	203
Arson/incendiarism	139
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon 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
Rowland	1.8 miles	17
White Oak	2.2 miles	17
Wyboo Plantation	2.6 miles	17
Frierson	2.6 miles	17
Shad Moss village	2.9 miles	17
Log Jam Landing	3.3 miles	13
Davis Station	3.3 miles	13
Davis Crossroads	4.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227974. 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.