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Cades, 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 Lake City West quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Cades 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

434 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 434 fires within 5 miles of Cades between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,531 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 126 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/undetermined145
Debris and open burning137
Arson/incendiarism126
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1

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
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth 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
25 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cades in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 1998Tornado (F1)Cades$72,000no account filed
October 2015Flash FloodCades$30,000Portions of Cade Road were reported flooded.
October 2015Flash FloodCades$15,000Portions of Dewey Cox Road were reported flooded.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCades$5,000no account filed
October 1995Thunderstorm WindCades$3,000Cooperative observer reported large tree limbs down causing roof damage.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCades$2,000Two large trees were reportedly blocking the roadway along Cade Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCades$2,000Two trees were reported down at the intersection of White Oak Road and Cade Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
April 2011HailCades$500Hail to the size of quarters was reported.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindCades$300no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCades-Large hardwood limbs blown down.
July 2012Heavy RainCades-A trained spotter reported 1.51 inches of rain in 15 minutes, with minor road and yard flooding.
April 2011HailCades-Hail to the size of nickels was reported.
June 2007HailCades-Penny size hail was reported.
June 2007HailCades-Hail, ranging from nickel to golf ball size covered the ground near Cades. Quarter size hail fell in Hebron, with heavy crop damage reported, damage amount unknown.
May 2006HailCades-Golfball size hail was reported in Hebron, with penny size hail in Cades.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCades-Trees down. Hail was also reported...but size unknown.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCades-A storm survey estimated wind gusts near 65 mph in the vicinity of Ropers Crossroads with trees down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCades-A spotter reported trees down. Quarter size hail was also reported.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCades-Spotter reported two large trees down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCades-no account filed
June 1996HailCades-no account filed
June 1996LightningCades-no account filed

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
Clarks Crossroads2.0 miles8
Hogeye Crossroads3.0 miles8
Brockington4.0 miles8
Baker Crossroads4.3 miles8
Moore Crossroads5.4 miles8
Hebron Crossroads5.9 miles8
Terrell Crossroad6.5 miles8
Fowler7.4 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.

Wikipedia article on CadesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5016398The 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 1247081. 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.