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Kingsburg, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Johnsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29555. The Survey maps it on the Gresham quadrangle. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Kingsburg within Florence County

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

329 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 329 fires within 5 miles of Kingsburg between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,877 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 99 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 burning110
Arson/incendiarism99
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Kingsburg: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Johnsonville PlantSandProducerSedimentary
Johnsonville MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnsonville PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kingsbury MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Florence County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingsburg in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 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
November 2013Thunderstorm WindKingsburg$1,000A tree was reported down along W Egg Hill Road.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindKingsburg-A tree was down on Egg Hill Road.
April 2012HailKingsburg-Hail to the size of nickels was reported.
August 2008HailKingsburg-Hail up to the size of quarters was reported.

Every storm recorded in Florence 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
Poston1.4 miles8
Bostick Landing3.9 miles8
Bostick4.0 miles8
Johnsonville4.3 miles8
Bazen Crossroads4.8 miles8
Poston Crossroads5.3 miles8
Half Moon (historical)5.4 miles8
Flemingtown6.1 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 KingsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16893454The 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 1246254. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.