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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.

Cordesville within Berkeley County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

315 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism120
Missing data/not specified/undetermined79
Debris and open burning77
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsQUITTING TIME
28 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsLTD
18 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsHURRICANE
12 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2004Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Flash FloodCordesville$20,000Berkeley County Emergency Management reported a washout of Cane Gulley Road near Highway 402.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCordesville$1,000Berkeley County dispatch reported a large tree limb down along Highway 402 at Rectory Hill Road.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCordesville-Law enforcement reported a tree blocking the road near the intersection of Bullhead Road and Cypress Hill Lane.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindCordesville-Berkeley County dispatch reported a tree down on Highway 402 near Rectory Hill Road.
May 2008HailCordesville-Quarter size hail was reported in Old Cordesville, South Carolina.
July 1995HailCordesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berkeley 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
Saw Mill1.5 miles12
Kensington2.3 miles11
Burtons (historical)3.0 miles11
Ellwood3.2 miles12
Witherbee3.5 miles11
Old Cordesville3.6 miles12
Childsbury3.6 miles12
Limerick3.6 miles11

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 CordesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988793The 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.