Sweden, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Denmark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29042. It stands on Sykes Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Norway West quadrangle.

Sweden within Bamberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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.

1919 USGS Bamberg quadrangle1:48000
1920 USGS Bamberg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Bamberg 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
1979 USGS Norway West quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Sweden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 617 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 25 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	56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Arson/incendiarism	25
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Natural	7
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2014	Debris and open burning	40 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2002	Natural	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2002	Natural	17 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bamberg 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
Edisto Club	2.0 miles	14
Finland	2.4 miles	15
Loraine (historical)	3.3 miles	15
Fogles (historical)	3.6 miles	15
Denmark	3.9 miles	15
Sato	4.0 miles	15
Lees	4.6 miles	15
Ott (historical)	5.1 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.

Wikipedia article on Sweden	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073131	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 1231849. 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.