Ruinsville, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Plantersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29585. It stands on Ruinsville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plantersville quadrangle.

Ruinsville within Georgetown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1943 USGS Plantersville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Ruinsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,433 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 37 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	61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60
Arson/incendiarism	37
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Georgetown 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
Mount Rena	1.5 miles	9
Belin	1.6 miles	9
Wachesaw Landing	2.8 miles	11
Richmond Hill	2.9 miles	11
Carriage Run	3.4 miles	11
Mulberry Landing	3.4 miles	11
Inlet Oaks Village	3.5 miles	11
Oak Hill	3.5 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122563015

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1226065. 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.