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Eadytown, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the St. Stephen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29468. It lies near Pintail Island. The Survey maps it on the Eadytown quadrangle.

Eadytown within Berkeley County

On record in Eadytown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

788 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 788 fires within 5 miles of Eadytown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,911 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 211 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/undetermined333
Arson/incendiarism211
Debris and open burning205
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes4
Natural4
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2018Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2005Arson/incendiarism12 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2018Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Storms near this place

23 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eadytown in 23 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindEadytown$3,000A Berkeley County official reported trees down in Eadytown, South Carolina.
June 2008HailEadytown$1,250Golf ball size hail was reported in Eadytown, South Carolina by the public. Two trees were also reported down on a dock on Lake Marion.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindEadytown$1,000The public reported that the vinyl skirting underneath 3 mobile homes was blown off. Winds were estimated at 40 to 50 mph.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEadytown-Berkeley County Emergency Management reported a tree down at 3457 Highway 45.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEadytown-Law enforcement reported a tree down near 1080 Thomas Walters Road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEadytown-Law enforcement reported a tree down on Pineville Circle.
July 2016HailEadytown-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail at Macs Landing.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEadytown-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 45 and Edgewater Road.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindEadytown-The observation site at Pineville recorded a 59 mph wind gust.
April 2012HailEadytown-The public reported quarter size hail in Eadytown.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEadytown-A 58 miles per hour wind gust was measured at the Santee Dam.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindEadytown-A thunderstorm wind gust of 64 miles per hour was measured.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEadytown-A 61 knot wind gust was measured at an observation site 2 miles north northwest of Eadytown on the south side of the Lake Marion Spillway.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindEadytown-A mesonet station on the Santee Dam on the east end of Lake Marion, measured a wind gust of 69 mph.
June 2009Funnel CloudEadytown-Law Enforcement reported a funnel cloud along Highway 45 at the Rediversion Canal Bridge in Eadytown, South Carolina.
June 2007HailEadytown-Quarter size hail fell for 5 minutes. A few small tree limbs were also reported down.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindEadytown-Thunderstorm winds to 67 mph were measured on the top of the Santee dam.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindEadytown-Handar equipment recorded wind gust of 66 mph.
June 2007HailEadytown-no account filed
June 2007HailEadytown-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindEadytown-no account filed
April 2006HailEadytown-no account filed
April 2006HailEadytown-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
Moss Pond (historical)2.2 miles18
Wilsons Landing2.6 miles18
Spring Plain (historical)2.9 miles18
Corsada (historical)3.4 miles18
Prioleau4.2 miles18
Wing Road4.3 miles18
Nelson Hill4.3 miles18
Cross Cross Roads4.7 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122558883The 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 1247585. 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.