Woodville, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the McClellanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29429. It stands on Alston Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sewee Bay quadrangle.

Woodville within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1919 USGS Sewee Bay quadrangle1:21120
1943 USGS Sewee Bay quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Sewee Bay quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1968 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS James Island quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS James Island quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

229 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Woodville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,254 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 99 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	99
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	67
Debris and open burning	45
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
17 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	LITTLE BIT
12 September 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge	CIGARETTE FIRE
22 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	PLUM HOT
4 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	BLUENOTE
23 July 2015	Natural	1.6 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	SAND PIT
21 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	COURT
20 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	CLAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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 Woodville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron, Zirconium. 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
	Sewee Bay Quadrangle	Titanium, Iron, Zirconium	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
Chandler	1.9 miles	13
Ten Mile	3.1 miles	13
Moores Landing	3.8 miles	13
Whitehall Terrace	4.1 miles	14
Porcher Bluff	5.4 miles	17
Philip	5.4 miles	18
Martins Point Landing	6.3 miles	18
Palmetto Fort	8.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230520. 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.