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Brighton, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Furman-Scotia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29922. The Survey maps it on the Brighton quadrangle.

Brighton within Hampton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Brighton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,225 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 35 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
Debris and open burning70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism35
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking6
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2017Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-EFFINGHAM-001
7 September 1997Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2002Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brighton in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 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 2007Thunderstorm WindBrighton$2,500Trees were reported down in Garnett.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindBrighton$1,500Trees blown down along Hopewell Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBrighton$1,000The Hampton County 911 Call Center reported one tree down in Garnett.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindBrighton$500Law Enforcement reported a tree in the roadway at Old Orangeburg Road and Augusta Stagecoach Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBrighton-Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Webb Avenue and Augusta Stage Coach Road.

Every storm recorded in Hampton 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
Garnett1.6 miles17
Stokes Bluff Landing3.8 miles15
Shirley4.0 miles16
Scotia5.0 miles16
Stokes5.8 miles16
De Loach6.0 miles16
Furman6.6 miles16
Steep Bottom (historical)6.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1220962. 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.