Tobys Bluff, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Lodge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29929. It sits by Toby Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Islandton quadrangle.

Tobys Bluff within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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 Cummings quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Cummings quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Islandton quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Tobys Bluff between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,085 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 35 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	65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53
Arson/incendiarism	35
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	1
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
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton 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
Islandton	2.8 miles	16
Moselle	4.0 miles	16
Varntown (historical)	5.7 miles	16
Ashton	7.3 miles	18
Sniders Crossroads	7.4 miles	16
Bells Crossroads	8.7 miles	16
Hudsons Mill	9.8 miles	16
Caldwell	10.1 miles	18

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 Q122561853

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 1231864. 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.