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Coosaw, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sheldon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29940. It stands on Huspa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sheldon quadrangle.

Coosaw within Beaufort County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

398 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 398 fires within 5 miles of Coosaw between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,719 acres in total. None started naturally. 138 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/undetermined146
Arson/incendiarism138
Debris and open burning103
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Coosaw: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Coosawhatchee Region DepositsPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1963

Every working recorded in Beaufort County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coosaw in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 5 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCoosaw$15,000Beaufort County Emergency Management reported a tree down on a house on Fieldfare Way.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCoosaw$2,000Law enforcement reported trees down in Seabrook and Grays Hill.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCoosaw-Beaufort County dispatch reported a tree limb down on a power line in the 1900 block of Trask Parkway. The downed power line eventually started a fire on the tree.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCoosaw-An emergency manager reported a tree down near the intersection of Paige Point Road and Paige Port Landing.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindCoosaw-Beaufort County Emergency Management conducted a storm survey and found that a thunderstorm downburst occurred along Seabook Road near Highway 21. Ten large water oaks were blown over or snapped off on Seabrook Road. Another tree was blown down on Highway 21 near Stuart Point Road. The magnitude and extent of the damage was consistent with straight line winds estimated to be around 70 miles per hour.

Every storm recorded in Beaufort 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
Seabrook1.2 miles19
Lobeco1.7 miles18
Fairview2.8 miles19
Gardens Corner3.9 miles19
Grays Hill3.9 miles19
Sheldon4.0 miles19
Dale4.5 miles18
Briars4.7 miles18

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 Q122567463The 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 1227887. 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.