BlockSmith, South Carolina
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wando census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29450. It stands on Pinckney Reserve Branch. The Survey maps it on the Huger quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1919 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Huger quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
401 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 401 fires within 5 miles of Smith between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,280 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 153 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/incendiarism | 153 |
| Debris and open burning | 110 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 102 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.7 acres | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | BABY J |
| 20 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.4 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | LITTLE BIT |
| 16 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | FLOYD |
| 11 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | POWERLINE |
| 7 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | ION CAR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231806. 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.