BlockUpper Topsaw Landing, South Carolina
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Plantersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29440. It stands on Yauhannah Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plantersville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Plantersville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
129 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Upper Topsaw Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,065 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 39 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 | 48 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 39 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 August 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 June 1998 | Debris and open burning | 300 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Topsaw Landing | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| Yauhannah | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Mount Tabor | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Conch Creek | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Pauls | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Mulberry Landing | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Rice Crossroads | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Petersfield | 5.3 miles | 10 |
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 Q122551294 | 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 1227992. 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.