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Tuckertown, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Carlisle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29031. The Survey maps it on the Carlisle quadrangle.

Tuckertown within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Tuckertown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 453 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1998Natural9.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsPITTMAN POND
7 July 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsDELTA ROAD
31 July 1999Natural2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sartor Town3.0 miles12
Beaver Dam3.3 miles12
Ada (historical)3.6 miles12
Herbert3.6 miles13
Delta4.1 miles12
Goshen Hill4.1 miles12
Carlisle4.8 miles13
Red Town (historical)6.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1251224. 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.