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Blackstock, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29014. The Survey maps it on the Blackstock quadrangle. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Blackstock within Chester County

On record in Blackstock

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

7 surveys from 13 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Blackstock between 1992 and 2017, burning about 232 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Arson/incendiarism56 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Blackstock: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Peay MineGoldPast ProducerGold

Every working recorded in Chester County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackstock in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBlackstock-Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines and causing an outage along Hopewell Church Rd.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBlackstock-County comms reported trees blown down on Rambo Road and additional trees down on Firetower Rd.
May 2016HailBlackstock-Public reported quarter size hail via Social Media.
May 2012HailBlackstock-Nickel size hail was reported between Blackstock and Cornwell.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBlackstock-Large tree limbs were blown down on Shannon Rd in the Blackstock community.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBlackstock-Three trees blown down.
April 2012HailBlackstock-no account filed
April 2008HailBlackstock-no account filed

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
Cornwell3.7 miles13
McKeown4.4 miles13
Ruckers Crossroads5.7 miles13
Wellridge6.0 miles13
Evans7.9 miles13
Forest Hills8.1 miles13
Peden Oaks8.3 miles13
Tip Top (historical)8.4 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on BlackstockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4923378The 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 1246908. 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.