Rosa, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kirksey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29848. It stands on Horsepen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kirksey quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rosa within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1892 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1908 USGS Kirksey quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Kirksey quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Kirksey quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Rosa (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 344 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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	45
Debris and open burning	33
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	6
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Smoking	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood 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
Callison	2.2 miles	15
Kirksey	2.4 miles	15
Gaines Crossroads	2.8 miles	15
Phoenix	3.9 miles	15
Rushville	4.3 miles	15
Sand Ridge	4.6 miles	15
Breezewood	4.6 miles	15
Sheppard Crossroads	4.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234213. 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.