Cordesville, South Carolina
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29434. The Survey maps it on the Cordesville quadrangle. It stands 52 feet above sea level.
On record in Cordesville
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 2 records
Taveau Churchlisted 1978- Richmond Plantationlisted 1980
Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records
- Comingtee, Cooper River, Cordesvillefederal building survey, 3 photographs
- Limerick, Cooper River, East Branch, Cordesvillefederal building survey, 14 photographs
- North Chachan Plantation, Stable, Cooper River, West Branch, Cordesvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
- Strawberry Chapel, 1000 Strawberry Chapel Road, Cordesvillefederal building survey, 13 photographs
- Taveau Church, State Road S-8-44, Cordesvillefederal building survey, 9 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1919 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
315 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Cordesville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,266 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 120 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 120 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 79 |
| Debris and open burning | 77 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | QUITTING TIME |
| 28 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | LTD |
| 18 September 1999 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests | HURRICANE |
| 12 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cordesville in 6 storm reports between 1995 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Cordesville | $20,000 | Berkeley County Emergency Management reported a washout of Cane Gulley Road near Highway 402. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cordesville | $1,000 | Berkeley County dispatch reported a large tree limb down along Highway 402 at Rectory Hill Road. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cordesville | - | Law enforcement reported a tree blocking the road near the intersection of Bullhead Road and Cypress Hill Lane. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cordesville | - | Berkeley County dispatch reported a tree down on Highway 402 near Rectory Hill Road. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Cordesville | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Old Cordesville, South Carolina. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Cordesville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saw Mill | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Kensington | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| Burtons (historical) | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Ellwood | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Witherbee | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Old Cordesville | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Childsbury | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Limerick | 3.6 miles | 11 |
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 Cordesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27988793 | The 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 1247384. 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.






