Selma, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dillon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29536. It stands on Ropers Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dillon East quadrangle.

Selma within Dillon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Dillon East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Dillon East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

416 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Selma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,102 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 89 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	137
Debris and open burning	103
Arson/incendiarism	89
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Smoking	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	3
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2018	Other causes	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2018	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 Dillon 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
Dillon	2.0 miles	9
Bunker Hill	2.4 miles	7
Little Rock	2.6 miles	7
Mount Calvary	2.7 miles	9
Bronson Crossroads	2.7 miles	9
Newtown	2.8 miles	9
Linkside	2.9 miles	9
Hamer	3.2 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236184. 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.