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Claussen, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pamplico census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29505. It stands on Middle Branch. The Survey maps it on the Florence East quadrangle.

Claussen within Florence County

On record in Claussen

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

290 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Claussen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,024 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 47 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 burning97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined87
Arson/incendiarism47
Equipment and vehicle use25
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Smoking6
Natural5
Other causes4
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claussen in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
October 2016Flash FloodClaussen1 killed, $500,000The Florence County Sheriff's Office Dive Team found a submerged vehicle at a bridge washout on National Cemetery Road Near Fire Tower Road. The car was found the next day. The lone male occupant was dead. The time was estimated.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindClaussen$10,000Power lines and trees blown down across Bethel Road.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindClaussen$5,000Emergency manager reported a large tree fell on a car.
August 2024Flash FloodClaussen$1,000Roadway flooding reported on National Cemetery Road in Florence County.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindClaussen$1,000Several trees down near the community of Claussen.
May 2011HailClaussen$1,000Hail to the size of quarters was reported.
July 2013FloodClaussen-Flooding was reported on Old River Road.
June 2013FloodClaussen-Flooding on Firetower Rd at National Cemetery Rd. Road was temporarily closed.
June 2013FloodClaussen-Old River Rd, near Francis Marion Rd, was closed due to flooding.
August 2013FloodClaussen-Francis Marion Rd was closed near Old River Rd.
May 1998HailClaussen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Florence 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
Willow Creek Siding2.9 miles9
Fendall3.1 miles9
Parker Crossroads3.2 miles9
Oak Grove3.3 miles9
Price Crossroads4.0 miles9
Kenwood Acres4.2 miles9
Kennedy Crossroads4.3 miles9
Mathis Corner4.3 miles9

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 Q122549311The 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 1247303. 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.