Steele Town, South Carolina

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 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Joseph H. Rainey HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1984 · 0.4 miles away
• Winyah Indigo Schoollisted 1988 · 0.2 miles away
• Harold Kaminski Houselisted 1971 · 0.5 miles away
• Prince George Winyah Church (Episcopal) and Cemeterylisted 1971 · 0.6 miles away
• Old Market Buildinglisted 1969 · 0.7 miles away

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.

• 1943 USGS Georgetown South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Georgetown South quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Georgetown South quadrangle1:24000
• 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Steele Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,455 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 41 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:

• Georgetown
• Country Club Estates
• San Miguel De Gualdape (historical)
• Colonial Estates
• Friendfield
• Kensington

Every fire recorded in Georgetown County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Steele Town: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 Georgetown County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1232482. 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.