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Beufordtown, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29453. It stands on Persimmon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jamestown quadrangle.

Beufordtown within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Beufordtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,510 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 102 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
Arson/incendiarism102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Debris and open burning42
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsVON HOLLEN
7 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsTIMBER JACK
28 August 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsDICEY
21 August 1999Natural4.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsLIGHTNING II
17 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beufordtown in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 5 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 2017Thunderstorm WindBeufordtown$500South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Highway 17-A near the intersection with Beaver Dam Road. The tree came down in outflow ahead of approaching thunderstorms.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBeufordtown-The Berkeley County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Santee River Road and U.S. Highway 17A.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBeufordtown-Law enforcement reported a tree down at the intersection of Santee River Road and Von Hollen Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBeufordtown-A trained spotter provided photos of three tree limbs, approximately 4-5 inches in diameter, down in the 3700 block of N Highway 17-A. A trampoline was also blown approximately one quarter of a mile by the wind.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBeufordtown-Berkeley County communications center reported a tree down at the intersection of Von Hollen Road and Santee River Road.

Every storm recorded in Berkeley 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
Savanna Creek0.8 miles9
Calestown2.3 miles9
Jamestown2.7 miles8
Tiger Corner (historical)3.6 miles8
Washington4.1 miles8
Farewell Corner4.2 miles8
Palmerville5.5 miles8
Alvin5.9 miles9

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 Q122573004The 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 1229407. 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.