Yale, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Barnwell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29817. The Survey maps it on the Blackville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Yale within Barnwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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 Williston quadrangle1:48000
1927 USGS Williston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Williston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
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
1979 USGS Blackville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

249 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Yale (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,132 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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	101
Debris and open burning	88
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Arson/incendiarism	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2017	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell 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
Ashleigh	1.6 miles	16
Barnwell	2.9 miles	16
Happy Bottom	3.2 miles	16
Hells Half Acre	3.4 miles	16
Long Branch	4.1 miles	16
Farrells Mill	4.1 miles	16
Hilda	4.6 miles	15
Hagoods Mill	4.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1235567. 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.