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Sunway Knolls, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sumter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29150. It stands on Mush Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Sumter West quadrangle.

Sunway Knolls within Sumter 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

394 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 394 fires within 5 miles of Sunway Knolls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,469 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 47 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 burning169
Missing data/not specified/undetermined115
Arson/incendiarism47
Misuse of fire by a minor33
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sunway Knolls: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Francis Moise ProspectIronProspect
White's Mill ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Sumter 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
Bon Air Terrace0.6 miles17
East Sunway Knolls0.6 miles17
North Deerfield0.7 miles17
Dinkins0.8 miles17
Deerfield0.8 miles17
Audubon Park1.0 miles17
Idlewood1.1 miles17
Westhaven1.2 miles17

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 Q122568208The 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 1244737. 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.