Spring Branch, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Windsor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29853. It stands on Buzzard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Williston quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Spring Branch within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1923 USGS Williston quadrangle1:48000
1927 USGS Williston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Williston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Williston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

305 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 305 fires within 5 miles of Spring Branch (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,599 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 25 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
Debris and open burning	139
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	76
Arson/incendiarism	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	13
Smoking	7
Other causes	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	WINDSOR ROAD
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.7 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	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 Aiken 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
White Pond	2.6 miles	16
Windsor	4.2 miles	17
Mount Beulah	5.1 miles	17
Apia (historical)	6.2 miles	15
Kitchings Mill	8.7 miles	12
Oakwood	8.7 miles	15
Salley	10.6 miles	12
Montmorenci	11.5 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236549. 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.