BlockGarnett, South Carolina
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Furman-Scotia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29922. The Survey maps it on the Pineland quadrangle. It stands 75 feet above sea level.
On record in Garnett
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 1 record
Pineland, Thelisted 1999
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1919 USGS Pineland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Pineland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Pineland quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Pineland quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
186 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Garnett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,230 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 25 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 | 81 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garnett in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 | Garnett | $500 | Law enforcement reported 1 tree down near the intersection of Highway 119 and Black Swamp Road. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Garnett | - | The Jasper County Fire and Rescue Department reported Black Swamp Road closed between Cotton Hill Road and Clyo Road due to flooding. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garnett | - | The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of US Highway 321 and SC 119. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garnett | - | Hampton County dispatch reported two trees down on Black Swamp Road near Cotton Hill Road. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garnett | - | Large limbs down. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garnett | - | Several large tree limbs down. |
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.
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 Garnett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q30621944 | The 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 1231306. 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.