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Bashan, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Ridgeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29936. The Survey maps it on the Coosawhatchie quadrangle.

Bashan within Jasper 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

494 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 494 fires within 5 miles of Bashan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,672 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 107 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/undetermined193
Debris and open burning155
Arson/incendiarism107
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural3
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
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bashan in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 4 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBashan$4,000Jasper County dispatch reported 4 power poles down in the 2000 block of West Frontage Road.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBashan$500South Carolina Highway Patrol reported one tree down near Rice Shire Road and Frontage Road, 3 miles north-northeast of Ridgeland, South Carolina.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBashan-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Clover Circle near the intersection of Bees Creek Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBashan-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway near mile marker 25 on Interstate 95 northbound.

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Ricetown2.6 miles19
Coosawhatchie2.8 miles19
Gilmania4.6 miles19
Gillisonville5.1 miles16
Ridgeland5.2 miles15
Grahamville5.4 miles15
Knowles5.5 miles19
Murad5.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231032. 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.