Tugtown, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Holly Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29059. The Survey maps it on the Sandridge quadrangle.

Tugtown within Orangeburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1920 USGS Eutawville quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Eutawville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Eutawville quadrangle1:62500
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
1979 USGS Sandridge quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

427 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 427 fires within 5 miles of Tugtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,421 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 70 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	178
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	113
Arson/incendiarism	70
Smoking	30
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	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
29 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Debris and open burning	11 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg 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
Connors (historical)	3.7 miles	17
Holly Hill	4.2 miles	17
Bowyer	4.6 miles	17
Possum Town	5.2 miles	17
Eutawville	5.6 miles	17
Green Town	5.6 miles	17
Four Holes	5.8 miles	17
Little Belvidere	5.9 miles	17

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 Q122558798

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 1227225. 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.