Yellow House, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Wando census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29492. It stands on Broad Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Charleston quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Yellow House within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1919 USGS Melgrove quadrangle1:21120, 3 printings
1940 USGS Melgrove quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS North Charleston 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
1998 USGS North Charleston quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Yellow House (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 680 acres in total. 1 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	20
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	3
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 July 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2011	Debris and open burning	197 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.6 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 2006	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 June 2014	Debris and open burning	3.7 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 June 2015	Natural	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Gehlkin (historical)	2.6 miles	16
Remleys (historical)	2.9 miles	18
Gold Cup Springs	3.6 miles	16
Lakeview	3.9 miles	16
Dominion Hills	4.1 miles	16
Red Bank Landing	4.1 miles	16
The Farms	4.4 miles	23
Melgrove (historical)	4.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234685. 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.