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Ashepoo, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Green Pond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29452. It stands on Horseshoe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Green Pond quadrangle.

Ashepoo within Colleton County

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.

Photographs

8 of 19 photographs shown, 1938 to 1942

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.

Negro's home in sawmill camp. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Negro's home in sawmill camp. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1938. Library of Congress
Boarding house, sawmill town. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Boarding house, sawmill town. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1938. Library of Congress
Station at Ashepoo, South Carolina
Station at Ashepoo, South Carolina
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer, 1942. Library of Congress
General store and post office, sawmill town. Ashepoo, South Carolina
General store and post office, sawmill town. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1938. Library of Congress
Logs on river barge near sawmill. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Logs on river barge near sawmill. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1938. Library of Congress
Schoolhouse in sawmill camp. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Schoolhouse in sawmill camp. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1938. Library of Congress
Stacks of lumber at sawmill. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Stacks of lumber at sawmill. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1938. Library of Congress
Gas station and commissary, sawill town. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Gas station and commissary, sawill town. Ashepoo, South Carolina
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1938. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Colleton County

Fires near this place

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Ashepoo between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,629 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 52 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/undetermined76
Debris and open burning65
Arson/incendiarism52
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
27 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined236 acresAce Basin National Wildlife RefugeCBFLDS96-1
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1998Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2002Arson/incendiarism15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 2006Natural50 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton County

Storms near this place

25 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashepoo in 25 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 2006Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$6,000Trees and power lines down along the 1200 block of Bennetts Point Road.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$6,000Trees and power lines down along Charleston Highway and Bonnie Doone.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$2,500A Colleton County emergency manager reported power lines down along Ace Basin Parkway near Ashepoo Drive.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$1,250A Colleton County emergency manager reported power lines down on Charleston Highway.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$1,000A Colleton County emergency manager reported one tree down and blocking both lanes at the 2000 Block of Bennetts Point Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$1,000A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down at 3500 Bonnie Doon Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$1,000A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down due to thunderstorm|outflow near 4000 Bonnie Doon Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$1,000The SC Department of Highways reported a tree down on Bonnie Dune Road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$1,000Law enforcement reported one tree down near the intersection of Clover Hill Road and Ace Basin Parkway.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$1,000Trees down in Several locations near Ashepoo. Trees down on Bennetts Point Rd.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$500South Carolina Highway Patrol reported one tree down on Crumley Road, 3 miles north of Ashepoo, South Carolina.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$500Law Enforcement reported a tree down along Prices Bridge Lane near Landing Road, 3 miles north of Ashepoo, South Carolina.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAshepoo$500One tree was reported down approximately one mile north of Ashepoo, South Carolina.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAshepoo-Colleton County dispatch reported two trees down along Bennett's Point Road. One tree was down near Wood Duck Lane and the other was down near Octavia Lane.
August 2024Flash FloodAshepoo-A Colleton County emergency manager reported Charleston Highway closed due to flooding at Horseshoe Creek Bridge between Neyles and Jacksonboro, South Carolina. Water was actively flowing over the roadway.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindAshepoo-Two trees were reported down on Ace Basin Parkway. One was down at Bennetts Points Road and the other was down at Ivenia Brown Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAshepoo-A Colleton County emergency manager reported power lines down and a tree down and blocking the roadway in the 2400 Block of Featherbed Road.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindAshepoo-A tree was reported down and in the roadway at Wee Hope Loop and Bonnie Doon Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAshepoo-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Bennetts Point Road and Mt Olive Road.
July 2016HailAshepoo-A trained spotter reported hail that ranged from quarter sized to golf ball sized, covering a porch.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAshepoo-Thunderstorm winds knocked down several large limbs. Nickel size hail was also reported in Jacksonboro.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAshepoo-Large tree limbs were knocked down at a tour outpost on the Ashepoo River.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindAshepoo-Several trees were blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindAshepoo-Trees and limbs were down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindAshepoo-Several trees and large limbs were down.

Every storm recorded in Colleton 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
Green Pond3.4 miles18
Ashepoo Crossing3.8 miles17
Ritter5.4 miles17
Jacksonboro5.5 miles16
Burnt Church Crossroads5.6 miles16
Neyles5.9 miles17
Catholic Hill6.4 miles17
Hickory Hill6.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122551671The 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 1231013. 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.