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Bingham, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Latta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29565. The Survey maps it on the Bingham quadrangle.

Bingham within Dillon County

On record in Bingham

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Bingham between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,540 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 37 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning39
Arson/incendiarism37
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural9
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2009Equipment and vehicle use50 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bingham in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 4 hail, 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBingham$1,000A tree was reported in the roadway along Fire Tower Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2003HailBingham-A trained spotter reported penny size hail.
March 2002HailBingham-Sherriff's office reported dime size hail.
September 2000HailBingham-Sheriff deputy reported quarter size hail.
June 1994HailBingham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dillon 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
Centerville3.1 miles7
Mallory3.6 miles9
Manning Crossroads5.1 miles7
McCormick Crossroads5.4 miles7
Dalcho5.5 miles7
Oak Grove5.8 miles9
Dothan6.3 miles7
Galavon6.5 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231058. 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.