Wise, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Trenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29847. The Survey maps it on the Ropers Crossroads quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wise within Edgefield 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.

1923 USGS Warrenville quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Warrenville quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Warrenville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Warrenville 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
1964 USGS Ropers Crossroads quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Wise (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 959 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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	68
Debris and open burning	55
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Arson/incendiarism	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	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
8 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edgefield 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
Swearingen (historical)	1.0 miles	17
Highview (historical)	2.4 miles	17
Ropers Crossroads	3.2 miles	17
Crafton (historical)	3.4 miles	17
Pine House Crossroads	4.8 miles	18
Rotalata	5.0 miles	18
Parkhill	5.1 miles	12
Trenton	5.8 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1228941. 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.