Kensington, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29434. It stands on Alligator Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bethera quadrangle.

Kensington within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1919 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Bethera quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Bethera quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

338 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 338 fires within 5 miles of Kensington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,090 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 149 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
Arson/incendiarism	149
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	81
Debris and open burning	69
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
28 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	QUITTING TIME
28 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	LTD
18 September 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	HURRICANE
12 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named
22 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	GETRIM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kensington in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 2 hail, 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 2015	Flash Flood	Kensington	$647,620	An emergency manager, law enforcement and the Coast Guard reported several roads closed and swift water rescues being made due to flooding between Huger, SC and Cainhoy, SC. Swift water rescues were underway in the Cainhoy area where cars were also reported floating in high water during early morning hours of October 4th. The Coast Guard released a video of an aerial rescue of a woman and infant child from a flooded house in Huger during the late morning hours of October 4th. The video also depicted widespread flooding of structures in the surrounding area. The intersection of Highway 41 and Highway 402 was also reported closed due to flooding.
May 2021	Hail	Kensington	-	A local news station relayed a report of quarter to half dollar sized hail near Huger via social media.
May 2008	Hail	Kensington	-	Nickel size hail and 40 mph winds were reported in New Hope, South Carolina.

Every storm recorded in Berkeley 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
Limerick	1.4 miles	11
Burtons (historical)	1.9 miles	11
Witherbee	2.2 miles	11
Cordesville	2.3 miles	12
Spring Hill (historical)	2.8 miles	13
Huger	3.0 miles	13
Saw Mill	3.5 miles	12
Conifer (historical)	3.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231445. 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.