BlockSartor Town, South Carolina
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cross Keys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29178. It stands on Evans Branch. The Survey maps it on the Whitmire North quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Whitmire North quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
68 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Sartor Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 436 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | COLLINS CREEK |
| 6 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | TYGER RIVER |
| 29 August 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | DELTA |
| 2 August 1998 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | PITTMAN POND |
| 7 July 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | DELTA ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goshen Hill | 1.2 miles | 12 | |
| Beaver Dam | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Delta | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Tuckertown | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Ada (historical) | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Red Town (historical) | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Herbert | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Carlisle | 6.6 miles | 13 |
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 Q122556760 | 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 1233034. 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.