Wambaw Corner, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the McClellanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29458. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the South Santee quadrangle.

Wambaw Corner within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1943 USGS Santee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1943 USGS South Santee quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Wambaw Corner between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,995 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 75 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
Arson/incendiarism	75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	72
Debris and open burning	48
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2002	Natural	18 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2011	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 1998	Natural	26 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	OLD DODGE
14 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	FLIP FLOP
8 June 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	TEAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wambaw Corner: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Iron, Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	North Santee Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary
	Santee Quadrangle	Zirconium, Iron, Titanium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Charleston 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
Germantown	0.8 miles	9
South Santee	2.9 miles	9
Collins Creek	3.8 miles	9
Moores Corner	6.6 miles	11
McClellanville	7.4 miles	11
Thompson Corner	8.0 miles	9
Tibwin	8.6 miles	11
Laurel Hill Plantation	10.8 miles	11

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 Q122547048

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 1231890. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.