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Barkerville, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Yemassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29916. The Survey maps it on the McPhersonville quadrangle.

Barkerville within Hampton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

357 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 357 fires within 5 miles of Barkerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,814 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 106 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/undetermined109
Arson/incendiarism106
Debris and open burning102
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural13
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2

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
29 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barkerville in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindBarkerville-Law enforcement reported a tree down on Salkehatchie Road near Interstate 95.

Every storm recorded in Hampton 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
McPhersonville1.3 miles19
Davidson2.3 miles19
Early Branch2.8 miles19
Blountville4.6 miles19
Fechtig4.6 miles16
Yemassee4.7 miles19
Horsegall6.3 miles16
Cummings6.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1244959. 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.