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Badham, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the St. George census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29471. It stands on Bear Branch. The Survey maps it on the Saint George quadrangle.

Badham within Dorchester County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

383 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 383 fires within 5 miles of Badham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,687 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 62 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/undetermined151
Debris and open burning140
Arson/incendiarism62
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dorchester 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 Badham: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
East Cooper MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dorchester County

Storms near this place

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Badham in 10 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
June 2009LightningBadham$5,000Law Enforcement reported that a lightning strike started a barn on fire, 3 miles northwest of Saint George, South Carolina.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBadham$500Law Enforcement reported a tree down along Bishopville Road, near Saint George, South Carolina.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBadham$500Law Enforcement reported a tree down on Badham Drive, 2 miles west-northwest of Saint George, South Carolina.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBadham-Dorchester County Emergency Management reported a tree down along the 100 block of Rebecca Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBadham-Dorchester County Emergency Management reported three pine trees down on a house along the 100 block of Davis Terrace.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBadham-The Dorchester Warning Point reported a tree down at the 500 Block of Mount Zion Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBadham-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway near the intersection of Hudson Road and Windham Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBadham-Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Saint Mark Bowman Road and Lemon Grove Road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBadham-The Dorchester County 911 Call Center reported three trees down near Reevesville. The first tree was located at the intersection of Winningham Road and Reeves Farm Road. The second tree was located at the intersection of Independent School Road and White Stone Drive. The third tree was located at the intersection of Lemon Grove Road and St Mark Bowman Road.
May 2009HailBadham-A trained spotter reported brief penny size hail 1 mile north of Saint George, South Carolina.

Every storm recorded in Dorchester 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
Hudsontown1.3 miles18
Old Saint George1.7 miles18
Saint George2.0 miles18
Reevesville2.1 miles18
Mount Zion2.4 miles18
Sugar Hill2.9 miles18
Cow Tail (historical)3.0 miles18
Byrd5.3 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 Q122565211The 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 1220287. 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.