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Brogdon, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sumter Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29153. It stands on Boots Branch. The Survey maps it on the Brogdon quadrangle.

Brogdon within Sumter County

On record in Brogdon

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

347 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 347 fires within 5 miles of Brogdon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,590 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 80 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 burning131
Missing data/not specified/undetermined110
Arson/incendiarism80
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brogdon in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2024Flash FloodBrogdon-SCDOT website reported all lanes of Britton Brogdon Road between Crossline Pipe and Boots Branch Road were closed in both directions due to flooding. Time estimated.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBrogdon-Dispatchers reported a tree down near Britton Road and Boots Branch Road and another on Camp Branch Road.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindBrogdon-SCHP reported trees down along 12 Bridges Rd. Time estimated.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBrogdon-SCDOT office in Sumter reported a tree down on Plowden Mill Rd. Exact location unknown. Time estimated.
June 2011HailBrogdon-Public reported 1 inch hail.
June 2009HailBrogdon-Public reported hail covering the ground at Brogdon Farms with largest hail stones the size of half dollars.

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Britton3.0 miles14
Brunsons Store4.8 miles17
Tindal5.0 miles14
Lakewood5.2 miles14
Forest Heights5.5 miles16
Stokes5.6 miles14
Concord Estates5.7 miles16
Leawood5.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1253467. 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.