Sandy Run, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Bowman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29018. The Survey maps it on the Bowman quadrangle.

Sandy Run within Orangeburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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 Bowman quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Bowman quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Bowman quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Orangeburg quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Bowman quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

229 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Sandy Run between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,249 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 22 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	90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	76
Arson/incendiarism	22
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Smoking	11
Natural	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	2
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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg 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
Lambrick	1.5 miles	18
Bowman	2.5 miles	18
Sixty Six	6.0 miles	17
Fifty Eight (historical)	6.4 miles	18
Whetsell	6.7 miles	18
Rowesville	7.2 miles	17
Branchville	7.2 miles	17
Providence	10.4 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1226377. 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.