BlockSteamboat Landing, South Carolina
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Edisto Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29438. It stands on Long Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edisto Island quadrangle.
On record in Steamboat Landing
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
William Seabrook Houselisted 1971 · 0.7 miles away- Lawton-Seabrook Cemeterylisted 2017 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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 Edisto Island quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Edisto Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Edisto Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
84 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Steamboat Landing between 1992 and 2018, burning about 633 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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 | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 1999 | Natural | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 June 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Point Landing | 2.6 miles | 18 | |
| Little Edisto | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Edisto Island | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Bears Bluff | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Freedman | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Oakgrove | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Rockland | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Pine Landing | 5.0 miles | 18 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231827. 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.