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Summerset Acres, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Summerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29483. It stands on Rumphs Hill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ridgeville quadrangle.

Summerset Acres within Dorchester County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

506 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 506 fires within 5 miles of Summerset Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,267 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 99 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 burning188
Missing data/not specified/undetermined161
Arson/incendiarism99
Misuse of fire by a minor42
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2005Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism50 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Debris and open burning4.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dorchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Summerset Acres: 4 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Reeves-EdistoSandUnknownSedimentary
Reeves-EdistoSandUnknownSedimentary
Knightsville MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Knightsville MineClayPast Producer
Salisbury MineClayProducer
Edista No. 2 DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Murray PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Summerville PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Dorchester 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Scotch Range Estates1.1 miles17
Lotts Crossroads1.6 miles19
Sweetbriar1.9 miles19
Twin Lakes2.0 miles17
Cotton Hill2.4 miles19
Knightsville2.5 miles19
Laurence (historical)2.5 miles17
Pecan Grove2.5 miles19

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 Q122548279The 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 1241233. 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.