Tranquil Acres, South Carolina

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Old Dorchesterlisted 1969 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1920 USGS Ravenels quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1944 USGS Ravenels quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Stallsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Tranquil Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 826 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 52 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Avenue of Oaks
• Coventry Place
• Dorchester Crossing
• Plantation Ridge
• Ashborough East
• Crichton Parish

Every fire recorded in Dorchester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Tranquil Acres: 4 producers, 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Dorchester County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241250. 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.