Simmons, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ware Shoals-Hodges census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29653. The Survey maps it on the Shoals Junction quadrangle.

Simmons within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1892 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Shoals Junction quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Simmons between 1992 and 2017, burning about 544 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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	110
Debris and open burning	46
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
4 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood 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
Tinsley	0.8 miles	13
Hodges	1.9 miles	14
Black	2.3 miles	13
Cokesbury	3.4 miles	14
Irving	3.8 miles	14
Shoals Junction	3.8 miles	13
Algary (historical)	4.0 miles	13
Dalewood	4.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234220. 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.