Varntown, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Lodge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29929. It stands on Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cummings quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Varntown within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1919 USGS Cummings quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Cummings quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Cummings quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Varntown (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 819 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 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	57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47
Arson/incendiarism	28
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2002	Debris and open burning	103 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton 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
Sniders Crossroads	2.9 miles	16
Islandton	3.6 miles	16
Tobys Bluff	5.7 miles	16
Hudsons Mill	6.4 miles	16
Bells Crossroads	8.3 miles	16
Moselle	9.2 miles	16
Jonesville	9.9 miles	19
Hendersonville	10.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1240771. 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.