White Oak, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Manning census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29102. It stands on White Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jordan quadrangle.

White Oak within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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 Manning quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Manning quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Manning 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
1980 USGS Jordan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

562 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 562 fires within 5 miles of White Oak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,472 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 137 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/undetermined	223
Debris and open burning	172
Arson/incendiarism	137
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	1
Other causes	1
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
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon 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
Shad Moss village	0.7 miles	17
Rowland	0.9 miles	17
Wyboo Plantation	1.3 miles	17
Frierson	1.8 miles	17
Rodgers	2.2 miles	13
Jordan	3.2 miles	17
Eagle Point	3.3 miles	17
Davis Station	3.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236064. 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.