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Davistown, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pamplico census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29583. It stands on Brier Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pamplico North quadrangle.

Davistown within Florence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Davistown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,235 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 42 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 burning90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Arson/incendiarism42
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural7
Smoking4
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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Other causesunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davistown in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2012: 2 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
April 2012HailDavistown$500Hail to the size of quarters was reported.
June 2009HailDavistown-An ambulance driver reported hail to the size of quarters. The report was relayed via the 911 Center.

Every storm recorded in Florence 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
Pamplico2.8 miles8
Mill Branch3.1 miles9
Gibbs Crossroads3.7 miles9
Perrot3.7 miles9
Hyman3.9 miles8
Evans Crossroads4.2 miles8
Fleet4.4 miles8
Orum4.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247501. 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.