Shiloh, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lancaster census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29720. It stands on McAteer Branch. The Survey maps it on the Van Wyck quadrangle.

Shiloh within Lancaster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

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
1968 USGS Van Wyck quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Shiloh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 355 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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	62
Debris and open burning	42
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	4
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2013	Other causes	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2019	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster 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
Arrowood Estates	1.0 miles	13
Quail Haven	1.5 miles	13
Robinwood Estates	2.2 miles	13
Cedar Terrace	2.4 miles	14
Gregwood	2.5 miles	14
Riverside	2.7 miles	13
Fosters Crossroads	2.8 miles	13
Caskey	3.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1250860. 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.