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Kitchings Mill, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wagener census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29137. It stands on Shaw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kitchings Mill quadrangle.

Kitchings Mill within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Kitchings Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,214 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 23 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 burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking2
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kitchings Mill in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 WindKitchings Mill$2,000Aiken Dispatch reported trees down at the intersection of Windsor Road and Hwy 4.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindKitchings Mill-Aiken County Sheriff reported two trees down in this area. Time estimated by radar.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindKitchings Mill-Couchton FD reported an outbuilding was destroyed on Farmer Rd and Hwy 302. Time estimated.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindKitchings Mill-Sheriff dispatch reported a large tree down along State Park Rd near Aiken State Park. Time estimated.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKitchings Mill-Sheriff dispatch reported trees down near the intersection of Surrey Race Rd and Salley Rd.
June 2021Funnel CloudKitchings Mill-Received a social media report with picture of a funnel cloud. The observer was on Kitchings Mill Rd and Wagener Rd looking west-northwest. A second public report of a funnel cloud was recorded a few miles west of Wagener, SC. This report was also included a photo and was relayed by local media outlets. An NWS Survey Team surveyed the area the next day and found no damage.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindKitchings Mill-Trees in roadway at SC 4 (Surrey Race Rd) and SC 394 (Salley Rd).
July 2017Thunderstorm WindKitchings Mill-SCHP reported multiple trees down on Smyrna Church Rd near the intersection of Warbonnet Rd.
May 2014HailKitchings Mill-Public reported quarter size hail off of Flowing Well Road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindKitchings Mill-Highway Department reported trees down along State Park Road near Aiken State Natural Area.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindKitchings Mill-Sheriff reported a few trees down.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindKitchings Mill-Sheriff reported trees down.

Every storm recorded in Aiken 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
Camp Rawls5.3 miles12
Apia (historical)6.2 miles15
Windsor6.9 miles17
Oakwood7.2 miles15
Earle (historical)7.3 miles16
Couchton7.8 miles15
Wagener8.0 miles12
New Holland8.0 miles12

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 Q122552618The 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 1246262. 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.