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Edgemoor, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fort Lawn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29712. It stands on South Fork Fishing Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edgemoor quadrangle. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Edgemoor within Chester County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Edgemoor between 1992 and 2018, burning about 356 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning37
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism10
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2

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
2 September 1998Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Edgemoor: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownIgneous
Dickerson Pit EastSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Dickerson Pit EastSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fishing Creek MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Chester County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgemoor in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 4 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEdgemoor$5,000Public reported a large tree fell on a truck traveling along Harmony Baptist Church Rd.
April 2011HailEdgemoor-Quarter size hail was reported on Harmony Church Rd.
May 2003HailEdgemoor-Hail covered the ground.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindEdgemoor-911 center reported trees and power lines down across the county.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindEdgemoor-Numerous trees blown down between Edgemoor and Fort Lawn.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEdgemoor-no account filed
July 2006HailEdgemoor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chester 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
Lando2.0 miles15
Hicklin Crossing2.2 miles15
Lewisville (historical)4.4 miles12
Rodman4.8 miles15
Rowell4.9 miles12
Landsford5.2 miles12
Smith5.6 miles15
Richburg6.2 miles12

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 EdgemoorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5337797The 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 1247635. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.