Knightsville, South Carolina

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

• Middleton Place Culvert, 4300 Ashley River Road, Knightsvillefederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Middleton Place, 4300 Ashley River Road, Knightsvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph

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 Summerville quadrangle1:48000
• 1920 USGS Summerville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1944 USGS Summerville quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Summerville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 444 fires within 5 miles of Knightsville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,180 acres in total. None started naturally. 78 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cotton Hill
• Sweetbriar
• Flowertown Village
• Oakdale Estates
• Briarwood
• Brownsville

Every fire recorded in Dorchester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Knightsville: 8 past producers, 7 unknowns, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Dorchester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knightsville in 40 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 4 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.

Every storm recorded in Dorchester County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1223761. 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.