Scottsville, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It lies in ZIP code area 29080. The Survey maps it on the Mayesville quadrangle.

Scottsville within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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 Mayesville quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Mayesville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Mayesville quadrangle1:62500
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
1983 USGS Mayesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

264 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Scottsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,037 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 50 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	115
Debris and open burning	83
Arson/incendiarism	50
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
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	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Debris and open burning	33 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	9.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mayesville	3.1 miles	17
Trinity Cross Roads	5.1 miles	16
Shaws Crossroads	5.3 miles	16
Lazy Acres Estates	5.9 miles	16
Brunsons Store	6.5 miles	17
Geddie Gardens	6.6 miles	16
Shiloh	6.8 miles	16
Pleasant Grove	6.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1226463. 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.