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Davis Station, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Manning census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29148. The Survey maps it on the Summerton quadrangle. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Davis Station within Clarendon 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

708 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 708 fires within 5 miles of Davis Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,652 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 154 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/undetermined291
Debris and open burning225
Arson/incendiarism154
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking6
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davis Station in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 WindDavis Station$3,000Public reported trees down on Williamson Brunson Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindDavis Station-Clarendon dispatch reported trees and powerlines down on the road on Bill Davis Rd. Time estimated by radar.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDavis Station-Spotter reported 2 trees down on his property on Furman Rd.
May 2012HailDavis Station-Public reported quarter size hail on Williamson Brunson Road.
March 2009Tornado (EF1)Davis Station-Two veteran spotters photographed and video taped the tornado as it touched down in the woods off of Bill Davis road and traveled northeast just east of Davis Station. Numerous trees were down but there was no structural damage as no homes or buildings were in its path. Photo coutesy of Gerard V. Jebaily, KI4LJT.
October 2003HailDavis Station-Santee National Wildlife Refuge reported 3/4 inch hail.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindDavis Station-Minor damage to a couple of buildings. Trees were knocked down.

Every storm recorded in Clarendon 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
Wyboo Plantation2.8 miles17
Jordan3.0 miles17
James Crossroads3.2 miles16
Rodgers3.3 miles13
White Oak3.9 miles17
Halleytown3.9 miles14
Juneville4.0 miles16
Bonanza (historical)4.1 miles17

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 Davis StationAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988774The 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 1231214. 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.