Traus, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Saluda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29138. The Survey maps it on the Emory quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Traus within Saluda County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

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
1964 USGS Emory quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Traus (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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	51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2001	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Natural	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saluda 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
Emory	2.0 miles	11
Richland	2.4 miles	11
Saluda	3.0 miles	12
Mobleys Crossroads	3.9 miles	11
Mount Willing	4.3 miles	12
Jones Crossroads	4.3 miles	11
Speigner	4.5 miles	11
Blacks	4.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1232641. 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.