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Indiantown, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Indiantown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29554. It stands on Boggy Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Indiantown quadrangle.

Indiantown within Williamsburg County

On record in Indiantown

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

6 surveys from 8 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

471 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 471 fires within 5 miles of Indiantown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,860 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 117 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 burning186
Missing data/not specified/undetermined146
Arson/incendiarism117
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Natural1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indiantown in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindIndiantown$3,000Trees were reported down at the intersection of Old Georgetown Road and Highway 261.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindIndiantown$3,000Trees were reported down near the intersection of Indiantown Swamp Road and Highway 261.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindIndiantown$1,000A tree was blown down on Indiantown Swamp Rd and SC-261.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindIndiantown-Numerous trees down around the Stuckey area.
April 1999HailIndiantown-An east-moving thunderstorm dropped hail ranging from quarter to golfball size along SC512.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindIndiantown-NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg 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
Stuckey2.5 miles8
Bartell Crossroads2.6 miles8
Midway Crossroads3.0 miles8
Henry4.3 miles8
Brunson Crossroads4.7 miles8
Saint Johns Crossroads4.8 miles8
Chandlers4.9 miles8
Nesmith5.2 miles8

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 IndiantownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709570The 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 1246122. 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.