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Barberville, South Carolina

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Van Wyck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29707. The Survey maps it on the Fort Mill quadrangle.

Barberville within Lancaster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 26 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Barberville between 1992 and 2017, burning about 123 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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/undetermined39
Misuse of fire by a minor33
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning11
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
6 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceHAY FIELD
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceJOE KERR RD
10 September 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Barberville: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Arrowood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSurface
Pineville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerMetamorphic
Pinewood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownIntrusive

Every working recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barberville in 1 storm report in 2015: 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
December 2015Flash FloodBarberville$5,000County Sheriff reported several roads closed due to flooding including SC 395 at Glenn Street Extension...Hwy. 76 at Sweet Springs and Lever Road at Whitener Road.

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Camp Cox0.7 miles26
Colonial Village1.8 miles23
Pleasant Valley2.4 miles23
Black Horse Run2.8 miles15
Belair5.6 miles15
Hancock9.3 miles15
Van Wyck12.1 miles13
Curetons (historical)12.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241593. 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.