Yonges Island, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Ravenel-Hollywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29449. It stands on Yonges Island. The Survey maps it on the Wadmalaw Island quadrangle.

Yonges Island within Charleston 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.

1919 USGS Wadmalaw Island quadrangle1:24000
1919 USGS Wadmelaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Wadmelaw Island quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Wadmalaw Island quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Yonges Island between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,104 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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
Debris and open burning	73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Arson/incendiarism	38
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
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
18 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	98 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yonges Island: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium. 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
	Wadmalaw	Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium	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
Gibson	1.5 miles	18
Wadmalaw Island	1.6 miles	17
Meggett	1.7 miles	17
Laroche	2.2 miles	18
Gannon (historical)	2.5 miles	18
Hollywood	2.9 miles	17
New Cut Landing	2.9 miles	17
Clementia (historical)	3.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231943. 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.