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Wing Road, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the St. Stephen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29468. The Survey maps it on the Pineville quadrangle.

Wing Road 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

546 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 546 fires within 5 miles of Wing Road between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,626 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 128 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/undetermined238
Debris and open burning160
Arson/incendiarism128
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes4
Smoking2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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 2017Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Other causes5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresSouth 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wing Road: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Santee Minerals MineSand 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
Murrell (historical)1.9 miles18
Pineville2.0 miles18
Region Town (historical)2.6 miles18
Judge Town2.6 miles18
Old Peru4.2 miles9
Eadytown4.3 miles18
Swamp Fox4.5 miles9
Moss Pond (historical)5.0 miles18

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 Q122541352The 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 1234411. 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.