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Jennys, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sycamore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29827. The Survey maps it on the Ehrhardt quadrangle.

Jennys within Allendale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Jennys between 1992 and 2019, burning about 518 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 12 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2004Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use14 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2019Natural3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allendale County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jennys in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 4 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 2013Thunderstorm WindJennys$1,000Allendale County communications reported a tree down and blocking Harmony Church Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindJennys-The Allendale County Dispatch reported a tree down on Cow Pen Branch Road.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindJennys-The Allendale 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Confederate Highway and Jennys Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindJennys-The Allendale 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Conferderate Highway and Jenny's Road.

Every storm recorded in Allendale 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
Tuten (historical)1.9 miles15
Sycamore5.8 miles15
Ulmer7.0 miles15
Fairfax8.0 miles16
Coalla (historical)8.8 miles15
Hayes Crossroads9.1 miles15
Lopers Crossroads10.4 miles15
Allendale10.4 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122555603The 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 1233132. 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.