Springtown, South Carolina

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.

• 1920 USGS St. George quadrangle1:48000
• 1921 USGS St George quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1921 USGS St. George quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Orangeburg quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS St. George quadrangle1:62500
• 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
• 1982 USGS St. George SW quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Springtown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,047 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 105 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Johnsville
• Canadys
• Red Bank (historical)
• Smoaks
• Weeks

Every fire recorded in Colleton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Springtown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Colleton County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1240753. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.