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Koonce, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Marion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29574. The Survey maps it on the Mullins quadrangle.

Koonce within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Koonce between 1992 and 2019, burning about 631 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 33 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Debris and open burning49
Arson/incendiarism33
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Smoking1
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
25 September 1998Arson/incendiarism30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Debris and open burning24 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2001Natural2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burning14 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Koonce: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Snipes MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Snipes MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Koonce in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 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
May 2009Thunderstorm WindKoonce$5,000Trees were reported down on SC-41 near Rains.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindKoonce$1,000A tree was reported in the roadway at the intersection of Penderboro Road and Hubert Baxley Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Pendeboro1.1 miles11
Gapway2.8 miles8
Rains3.0 miles8
Ariel Cross Road4.2 miles8
Cartwheel Landing4.2 miles8
Mullins5.2 miles11
Country Club Estates5.2 miles11
North Mullins5.8 miles11

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 Q122563846The 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 1231455. 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.