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Whitesville, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Goose Creek-Hanahan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29461. It stands on Stony Branch. The Survey maps it on the Moncks Corner quadrangle.

Whitesville within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

567 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 567 fires within 5 miles of Whitesville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,488 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 130 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 burning214
Missing data/not specified/undetermined174
Arson/incendiarism130
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Whitesville: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Consolidated Enterprises Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Consolidated Pit Number 1Sand and Gravel, Construction, ClayPast Producer
Unnamed Sand/Clay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Berkeley 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Oak Park0.2 miles18
The Cottage0.2 miles18
The Barrows0.5 miles18
Bombaretta (historical)1.2 miles18
Locklair (historical)1.2 miles18
Hickory Hill1.7 miles19
Saint Johns1.9 miles19
Fox Bank (historical)2.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1251436. 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.