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Adams Run, South Carolina

18 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 29426. The Survey maps it on the Adams Run quadrangle. 421 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Adams Run within Charleston County

On record in Adams Run

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 5 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

308 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 308 fires within 5 miles of Adams Run between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,857 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 73 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/undetermined106
Debris and open burning106
Arson/incendiarism73
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1

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
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAce Basin National Wildlife RefugeCAMPER FIRE
6 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Storms near this place

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams Run in 17 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 14 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006Tornado (F1)Adams Run1 hurtA tornado touched down along Willtown road near Minnie Hughs Elementary School and then tracked east crossing Highway 174 just north of the intersection with Moffett Road. The tornado then moved through a farm before moving across Toogoodoo road near the intersection of Oakville Road and then lifted in a marshy area near Toogoodoo creek. Numerous trees, large limbs, and power lines were damaged along the path and one house partially collapsed due to the tornado.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindAdams Run$1,500Several trees were reported down along the intersection of Highway 174 and Toogoodoo Road, 2 miles south of Adams Run, South Carolina.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAdams Run$1,000A tree was reported down near the intersection of Highway 164 and Rodd Drive.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAdams Run$1,000One tree was reported down near the intersection of Moffett Road and Highway 174.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindAdams Run$1,000Law Enforcement reported a tree down at the intersection of Mauss Hill Road and Moon Dam Road. A second tree was reported down at the intersection of State Highways 162 and 174.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAdams Run$1,000Law enforcement reported 1 tree down near the intersection of Park Island Road and White Point Road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindAdams Run$500Law Enforcement reported a tree down at the intersection of Highway 174 and Toogoodoo Road, 2 miles south of Adams Run, South Carolina.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindAdams Run$500Large tree limbs were reported down on Route 174.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAdams Run-A report received via social media indicated a tree down on an unoccupied vehicle off Hyde Park Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAdams Run-Charleston County dispatch reported a tree down on Highway 162 near the intersection with Highway 174. Highway 162 had to be closed for a time due to the tree in the roadway.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindAdams Run-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near 8600 Moffett Road.
May 2008Funnel CloudAdams Run-A report of a funnel cloud and wall cloud over Adams Run, South Carolina was relayed by local broadcast media.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindAdams Run-Trees and power lines were knocked down.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindAdams Run-Thunderstorms winds knocked down several trees.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAdams Run-Large tree limbs down.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindAdams Run-Several trees down.
April 2006HailAdams Run-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Barrelville2.4 miles18
Osborn2.4 miles16
Shiloh2.9 miles17
Jericho3.1 miles16
Laurel Hill3.3 miles18
Parkers Ferry3.7 miles16
Baptist Hill4.3 miles18
Gannon (historical)4.4 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on Adams RunAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4680397The 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 1220137. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.