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Epworth, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kirksey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29666. The Survey maps it on the Kirksey quadrangle.

Epworth within Greenwood County

On record in Epworth

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Epworth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 239 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
Smoking2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2016Other causesunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Smoking10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Epworth in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2011: 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 2009HailEpworth-Hail reported in the Epworth community.
April 2011HailEpworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Dominicks (historical)1.5 miles15
Sand Ridge2.4 miles15
Gaines Crossroads2.9 miles15
Phoenix3.7 miles15
Kirksey4.0 miles15
Cambridge (historical)4.0 miles15
Cambridge4.5 miles12
Rosa (historical)5.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231270. 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.