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Cedar Swamp, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Kingstree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29556. It stands on Home Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Fowler quadrangle.

Cedar Swamp 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

366 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 366 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Swamp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,273 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 112 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 burning139
Arson/incendiarism112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined91
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking5
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
27 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2010Debris and open burning13 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Swamp in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
November 2011Thunderstorm WindCedar Swamp$1,000A large tree was reported down on Cedar Swamp Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.

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
Fowler3.5 miles8
Kellehan Crossroads4.6 miles8
Millwood5.7 miles8
Nexsen (historical)5.8 miles8
Cooper6.9 miles8
Indiantown7.4 miles8
Morrisville7.6 miles8
Woodland Acres7.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247224. 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.