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Crocketville, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hampton-Varnville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29924. The Survey maps it on the Crocketville quadrangle. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Crocketville within Hampton County

On record in Crocketville

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 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

4 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Crocketville Country Store, US 601 & Route 38, Crocketville, Hampton County, SC
Crocketville Country Store, US 601 & Route 38, Crocketville, Hampton County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Cohasset, US 601, 1 mile North of Crocketville, Crocketville, Hampton County, SC
Cohasset, US 601, 1 mile North of Crocketville, Crocketville, Hampton County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Cohasset, Tenant House, U.S. 601, approximately 1 mile North of Crocketville, Crocketville, Hampton County, SC
Cohasset, Tenant House, U.S. 601, approximately 1 mile North of Crocketville, Crocketville, Hampton County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Crocketville Country Store, US 601 & Route 14, Crocketville, Hampton County, SC
Crocketville Country Store, US 601 & Route 14, Crocketville, Hampton County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

276 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of Crocketville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 922 acres in total. 13 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 burning108
Missing data/not specified/undetermined86
Arson/incendiarism47
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2002Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton County

Storms near this place

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crocketville in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 18 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 2006Thunderstorm WindCrocketville$5,000Trees and powerlines down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCrocketville$2,000A state official reported 2 trees down on Route 601 near Crocketville.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCrocketville$2,000The public reported several large branches down in their yard in Crocketville, South Carolina. Branches were greater than 2 inches in diameter.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCrocketville$1,000Tree down along Highway 601 near Crocketville.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCrocketville$1,000Law Enforcement reported a tree down on power lines along Route 601, near Crocketville, South Carolina.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindCrocketville$500Law Enforcement reported a tree in the roadway on Altman Road.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindCrocketville$500Law Enforcement reported a tree in the roadway on Highway 601, near Sandy Run Road.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCrocketville$500A few trees were reported down.
April 2022HailCrocketville-Broadcast media relayed a report via social media of quarter to golf ball size hail in Crocketville.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCrocketville-The Hampton County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Sandy Run Road and Bamberg Highway.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCrocketville-The public reported a pecan tree uprooted and a small horse shelter blown over.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCrocketville-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 601 and Sandy Run Road.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindCrocketville-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 601 and Sandy Run Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCrocketville-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at Highway 601 and Corbin Lane.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCrocketville-Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Joe Miley Road and Sandy Run Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCrocketville-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Highway 601 just north of Crocketville.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCrocketville-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported that a tree was blown down onto Highway 601 North at the Sandy Run Road intersection.
September 2010HailCrocketville-The public reported golf ball size hail covering the ground, 5 miles north-northwest of Crockettville, South Carolina.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCrocketville-A tree and large limbs were knocked down over power lines.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindCrocketville-There were several trees down.
April 1999HailCrocketville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hampton 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
Cleland Crossroads2.7 miles16
Pond Town3.1 miles16
Miley3.2 miles16
Hampton3.8 miles16
Varnville4.6 miles16
Halls Mill4.7 miles16
Brunson5.9 miles16
Almeda6.2 miles16

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 CrocketvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30621935The 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 1247426. 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.