Aiken, South Carolina

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• Aiken County

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 12 of 27 shown

• Aiken Colored Cemeterylisted 2007
• Aiken Mile Tracklisted 1985
• Aiken Training Tracklisted 1985
• Aiken Winter Colony Historic District Ilisted 1984
• Aiken Winter Colony Historic District IIlisted 1984
• Aiken Winter Colony Historic District IIIlisted 1984
• Chinaberrylisted 1982
• Coker Springlisted 1978
• Court Tennis Buildinglisted 1984
• Crosswayslisted 1997
• Dawson-Vanderhorst Houselisted 1976
• Immanuel Schoollisted 2009

Every listing in Aiken County

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Physics Assembly Laboratory, Area A/M, Savannah River Site, Aikenfederal building survey, 107 photographs

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.

• 1920 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:48000
• 1921 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1943 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:62500
• 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
• 1964 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 442 fires within 5 miles of Aiken between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,330 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 44 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Dunbarton Oaks
• Ward Hills
• Forest Heights
• Gatewood
• Kalmia Hills
• Pinecrest

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Aiken: 23 past producers, 9 unknowns, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Aiken County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aiken in 134 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 79 thunderstorm wind, 40 hail, 6 tornado, 4 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 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.

Every storm recorded in Aiken County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1244853. 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.

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.