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Brockington, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29518. The Survey maps it on the Kingstree quadrangle.

Brockington within Williamsburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

762 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 762 fires within 5 miles of Brockington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,365 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 187 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 burning283
Missing data/not specified/undetermined258
Arson/incendiarism187
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarism15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionGAUSETOWN
25 September 2010Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brockington: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
McKenzie Pit # 2SandProducerSedimentary
McKenzie Pit # 2SandProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brockington in 1 storm report in 2009: 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 2009Thunderstorm WindBrockington$5,000Trees were reported down along Highway 52. The report was relayed through the Williamsburg County 911 Center.

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg 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
Woodland Acres3.9 miles8
Cades4.0 miles8
Clarks Crossroads4.5 miles8
Kingstree4.6 miles8
Fowler6.0 miles8
Hogeye Crossroads6.0 miles8
Baker Crossroads6.1 miles8
Nexsen (historical)6.4 miles8

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 Q122597716The 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 1231088. 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.