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Creston, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29030. The Survey maps it on the Cameron quadrangle.

Creston within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Creston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 707 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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 burning78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1999Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creston in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCreston$4,000Sheriff reported trees down near Elloree.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCreston$4,000Sheriff reported trees down on Jericho Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCreston$3,000County reported several trees down near hwy 6 in southern Calhoun county north of Ellorree.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCreston$2,000Highway Patrol reported trees down on Hwy 6 near Hwy 33.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCreston$500Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Cameron Road.
June 2023HailCreston$100Video, sent via social media, appeared to show pea to dime size hail near Hwy 6 between St. Matthews and Elloree.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindCreston-SCHP reported trees down on Kings Grant Rd near Cotton Pointe Dr near Cameron.
July 2011HailCreston-Post Office reported quarter size hail the area and estimated wind gusts of 50 mph.
May 2010HailCreston-Public reported quarter size hail near Kings Grant road.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindCreston-Power lines down from thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Tina1.9 miles13
Lone Star3.6 miles13
Cameron4.5 miles13
Midway5.8 miles13
Weeks Landing6.9 miles13
Wiles Crossroads7.8 miles13
Singleton7.8 miles13
Wertz Crossroads8.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231204. 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.