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Salters Depot, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Lane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29590. It stands on Thorntree Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Salters quadrangle.

Salters Depot within Williamsburg County

On record in Salters Depot

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

640 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 640 fires within 5 miles of Salters Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,189 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 170 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/undetermined261
Debris and open burning177
Arson/incendiarism170
Smoking12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2018Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Smoking6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1999Debris and open burning45 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Salters0.2 miles8
Bryans Crossroads2.0 miles8
Rock Bluff2.2 miles8
Belsers Crossroads4.1 miles8
Kingstree5.1 miles8
Heineman5.2 miles8
Nexsen (historical)5.2 miles8
Lane5.3 miles8

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 Q122556696The 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 1226295. 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.