Gandy, South Carolina

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Society Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29540. The Survey maps it on the Mont Clare quadrangle.

Gandy within Darlington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Mont Clare quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Gandy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,287 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 27 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 burning	76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Natural	7
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	150 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gandy: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Buckholtz Creek	Titanium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial
	Unidentified Clay Mine	Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Darlington County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gandy in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gandy	$3,000	Trees and power lines were reported down on Gandy Siding Road near the intersection with Running Brook Road.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gandy	$1,000	A large tree was blown down at the intersection of Society Hill Rd and Lumber Rd.
April 2011	Hail	Gandy	-	Hail up to the size of nickels was reported.

Every storm recorded in Darlington 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lumber (historical)	3.0 miles	6
Robbins Neck	3.3 miles	6
Dovesville	3.4 miles	6
Mont Clare	3.6 miles	6
Plumfield Landing	4.5 miles	8
Society Hill	4.9 miles	8
Leavensworth (historical)	4.9 miles	6
Antioch	5.1 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227905. 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.