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Wyboo Plantation, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Manning census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29102. It stands on Three Hole Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Jordan quadrangle.

Wyboo Plantation within Clarendon 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.

Fires near this place

628 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 628 fires within 5 miles of Wyboo Plantation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,080 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 149 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/undetermined254
Debris and open burning190
Arson/incendiarism149
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks2
Natural2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon 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
White Oak1.3 miles17
Shad Moss village1.4 miles17
Jordan2.0 miles17
Rowland2.1 miles17
Rodgers2.6 miles13
Davis Station2.8 miles13
Frierson3.2 miles17
Bonanza (historical)3.3 miles17

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 Q122552657The 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 2574912. 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.