Smithville, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Abbeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29620. The Survey maps it on the Abbeville East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Smithville within Abbeville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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
1948 USGS Abbeville East quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Abbeville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

225 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Smithville (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 864 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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	109
Debris and open burning	48
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Arson/incendiarism	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Smoking	7
Natural	3
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
23 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	EBENEEZER
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1993	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 Abbeville 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
Smithville	0.6 miles	15
Millers Grove (historical)	1.9 miles	15
Millers Mill	2.5 miles	15
Cana (historical)	3.7 miles	15
Darraugh	3.7 miles	15
Shiloh	3.8 miles	15
Long Cane (historical)	4.5 miles	15
Abbeville	5.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1229145. 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.