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Saw Mill, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29434. The Survey maps it on the Kittredge quadrangle.

Saw Mill within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

283 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Saw Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,960 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 93 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
Arson/incendiarism93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Debris and open burning73
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsQUITTING TIME
28 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsLTD
18 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsHURRICANE
12 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2004Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Cordesville1.5 miles12
Ellwood1.8 miles12
Childsbury2.1 miles12
Rice Hope2.4 miles12
Mepkin2.6 miles12
Comingtee2.6 miles12
Strawberry Landing2.8 miles12
Richmond3.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234620. 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.