Thursa, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Bishopville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29010. The Survey maps it on the Lucknow quadrangle.

Thursa within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Lucknow quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Camden quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Camden South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Thursa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,084 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 37 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	100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	54
Arson/incendiarism	37
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	6
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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
Zemp	2.4 miles	14
Bishopville	3.2 miles	15
Lucknow	3.7 miles	14
Browntown	3.9 miles	16
Shannon Hill	4.4 miles	14
Weatherly (historical)	4.9 miles	15
McCutchen (historical)	5.3 miles	16
Alcot	5.7 miles	14

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 Q122596263

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 1227989. 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.