Ruddell, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairfax census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29932. It sits by Cohens Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Brier Creek Landing quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ruddell within Allendale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1920 USGS Peeples quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Peeples quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Brier Creek Landing quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Ruddell (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 310 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	18
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Natural	14 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 July 2000	Natural	38 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allendale 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
Cohens Bluff Landing	1.2 miles	15
Red Bluff Landing	2.8 miles	15
Milbury	5.4 miles	15
Solomons Crossroads	5.8 miles	15
King Creek Landing	6.4 miles	15
Fennell Hill Landing	7.0 miles	15
Barton	8.2 miles	15
Gravel Hill (historical)	8.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1248883. 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.