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Fechtig, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Yemassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29916. The Survey maps it on the Cummings quadrangle.

Fechtig within Hampton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

323 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Fechtig between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,489 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 65 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 burning111
Missing data/not specified/undetermined104
Arson/incendiarism65
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural15
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
29 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fechtig in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindFechtig-The Hampton County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Henderson Road near the intersection with Old Salkehatchie Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFechtig-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Wild Turkey Trail and Bubbas Drive.

Every storm recorded in Hampton 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
Cummings1.9 miles16
Early Branch2.5 miles19
Camp Branch4.2 miles16
Davidson4.5 miles19
Horsegall4.6 miles16
Barkerville4.6 miles19
McPhersonville5.8 miles19
Almeda6.2 miles16

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 FechtigAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q96377840The 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 1222364. 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.