Steel Creek Landing, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Millett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29836. It stands on Brier Branch. The Survey maps it on the Millett quadrangle.

Steel Creek Landing within Allendale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1920 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Ellenton 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
1964 USGS Millett quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Steel Creek Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,048 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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	30
Arson/incendiarism	22
Natural	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
29 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BURKE008
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	6.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BURKE007
14 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	ROADSIDE
17 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	MOONLIGHT
13 August 1993	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allendale 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
Little Hell Landing	3.5 miles	16
Millett	4.1 miles	16
Browns Landing	4.8 miles	16
Averill	5.4 miles	16
Martin	7.4 miles	16
Johnsons Landing	9.3 miles	15
Baldock	10.0 miles	16
Concord Crossroads	12.3 miles	15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122563397

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1251035. 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.