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Bascomville, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Richburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29729. It stands on Tinkers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Lawn quadrangle.

Bascomville within Chester County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Bascomville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 340 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined64
Debris and open burning37
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking5
Natural5
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Natural8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester 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 Bascomville: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Decker-Holway Steel--Richburg, ScIronUnknown
Dickerson Pit EastSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Dickerson Pit EastSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fishing Creek MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Chester County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bascomville in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 2 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBascomville-County comms reported several trees blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBascomville-A tree was blown down at the intersection of highways 9 and 99 and another was blown down near the intersection of Beaver Dam Rd and highway 99.

Every storm recorded in Chester 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
Binghamtown (historical)2.4 miles12
Richburg2.6 miles12
Lewisville (historical)4.0 miles12
Fudges (historical)4.2 miles12
Fort Lawn4.3 miles12
Lake View5.3 miles12
Tip Top (historical)5.5 miles12
Lando5.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1220340. 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.