Wragg Borough Homes, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Charleston Central census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29403. It stands on Newmarket Creek. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle.

Wragg Borough Homes within Charleston County

On record in Wragg Borough Homes

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 45 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Joseph Manigault HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973 · 0.3 miles away
William Aiken House and Associated Railroad StructuresNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.3 miles away
Cigar FactoryNational Historic Landmark · 0.4 miles away
Charleston Historic District (Boundary Increase)National Historic Landmark · listed 1984 · 0.5 miles away
Charleston Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.5 miles away
College of CharlestonNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971 · 0.6 miles away
Robert Barnwell Rhett HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973 · 0.7 miles away
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim SynagogueNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978 · 0.7 miles away
William Blacklock HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973 · 0.7 miles away
Denmark Vesey HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976 · 0.8 miles away
Market Hall and ShedsNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973 · 0.8 miles away
Huguenot ChurchNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973 · 0.8 miles away

Every listing in Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1919 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:21120, 3 printings
1948 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1948 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:24000, 5 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
1994 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Wragg Borough Homes between 1993 and 2012, burning about 120 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	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
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2012	Fireworks	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 June 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	7.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 March 2006	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 December 2000	Debris and open burning	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 January 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Wragg Borough Homes: 3 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Thorium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Charleston Smelter	Chromium	Plant
Airco Alloys	Iron	Unknown
Charleston County Mine	REE, Thorium	Producer
Fort Moultrie Quadrangle	Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Thorium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach
Cross Country Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cross Creek Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mt Pleasant Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

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
Anson Borough Homes	0.4 miles	18
Charleston	1.1 miles	18
Gadsden Green Homes	1.1 miles	18
Garden Hill	1.9 miles	18
Myers	1.9 miles	18
Moreland	2.2 miles	18
Bayview Acres	2.2 miles	18
Scanlonville	2.3 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1253341. 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.