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Sanders Corner, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Shaw AFB-Horatio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29128. The Survey maps it on the Rembert quadrangle.

Sanders Corner within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

296 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Sanders Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,484 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 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 burning133
Missing data/not specified/undetermined103
Arson/incendiarism23
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking6
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning40 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sanders Corner: 2 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Thorium, Iron, Zirconium, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gum SwampTitanium, Thorium, Iron, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
HoratioIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
HoratioSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Victor Moise ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Sumter 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
Springbank Hills1.8 miles14
Horatio1.8 miles19
Claremont2.2 miles14
Pinckney Crossroad2.5 miles17
Dinkins Mill2.6 miles19
Catchall2.7 miles16
Oakland3.1 miles17
Stateburg3.1 miles14

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 Q122598909The 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 1231768. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.