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Hamer, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Hamer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29547. The Survey maps it on the Dillon East quadrangle. 820 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 148 feet above sea level.

Hamer within Dillon County

On record in Hamer

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

358 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 358 fires within 5 miles of Hamer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,162 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 92 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/undetermined107
Arson/incendiarism92
Debris and open burning82
Equipment and vehicle use29
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2
Fireworks2

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
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2018Other causes3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamer in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2013Thunderstorm WindHamer$9,000Numerous trees were reported down along East Country Club Road between U.S. 301 and State Road 17.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindHamer$5,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindHamer$2,500Trees were reported down on Mt Calvary Road.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindHamer$2,500Trees were reported down along Highway 301 near Apple Jack Loop.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindHamer$2,000A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team found a large pine tree uprooted along Interstate 95, just north of the South Carolina Welcome Center.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHamer$1,000Trees were blown down on Interstate 95 near mile marker 198.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHamer$1,000A tree was reported down on Britt Drive.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindHamer$1,000A tree was reported down at the intersection of Oakland Road and West Country Club Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHamer-Tree down in Hamer, SC reported by the public.
September 2018Tornado (EF0)Hamer-A tornado touched down near SR 17-198 just south of Vicksburg|Drive, and skipped north along the east side of West Country Club |Road. Several large limbs were were broken out of tree tops, along|with a few snapped small pine trees and hardwoods. Additional |minor tree damage was observed on the east side of Oscar Drive to |near the intersection with Harlees Bridge Road, where several|limbs were broken from the tops of oak trees.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindHamer-Trees were observed down along Interstate 95 Southbound.
May 1996HailHamer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dillon 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
Five Forks0.5 miles9
Linkside1.2 miles9
Kentyre1.9 miles9
Bronson Crossroads2.0 miles9
Cotton Valley2.5 miles9
Carmichael Crossroads2.5 miles9
Mount Calvary3.2 miles9
Selma3.2 miles9

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 HamerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5548508The 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 1222994. 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.