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Monticello, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Monticello-Salem Crossroads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29065. The Survey maps it on the Jenkinsville quadrangle. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Monticello within Fairfield County

On record in Monticello

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

On the National Register 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

Photographs

3 photographs, 1939

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.

Old plantation home near Monticello, South Carolina
Old plantation home near Monticello, South Carolina
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1939. Library of Congress
Old abandoned plantation owner's home near Monticello, South Carolina
Old abandoned plantation owner's home near Monticello, South Carolina
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1939. Library of Congress
Old plantation home near Monticello, South Carolina
Old plantation home near Monticello, South Carolina
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1939. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Monticello between 1992 and 2020, burning about 582 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined49
Debris and open burning43
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks2

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
29 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.4 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsFS400
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Monticello: 8 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Stone, Dimension, Granite. 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
Monticello QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1975, 1978
Unnamed Dimension Stone QuarryStone, Dimension, Granite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Anderson QuarryGraniteProducer
Number 126 QuarryGraniteUnknownIgneous
Anderson QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast Producer1898
Job 126 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Leiper-Davis QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1900
Unnamed Dimension StoneGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Unnamed Dimension Stone QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Unnamed Dimension Stone QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Fairfield County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monticello in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindMonticello$10,000EM reported many trees down in the western part of Fairfield county.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMonticello$6,000Fairfield Electric reported power outages on Hwy 213 from trees down on powerlines.
March 2012HailMonticello$5,000Public reported nickel to quarter size hail and strong winds near Monticello in western Fairfield County.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindMonticello$4,000DOT reported several trees down along Hwy SC215 in western Fairfield County.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Monticello-A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed a brief EF-0 tornado with peak winds of 80 mph in Northwestern Fairfield County during the early morning hours of May 9th. The tornado likely began in a wooded area northwest of Clark Bridge Road.|It then crossed the road while moving southeast resulting in multiple downed or snapped trees in and around properties in the 3900 block of Clark Bridge Road. The tornado then likely lifted a short distance beyond Clark Bridge Road in the woods |behind the impacted properties shortly before reaching Crumpton Creek.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Fairfield County dispatch reports a tree down along Hwy. 215 at Meadow Lake Road. Time estimated by radar.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Trees on power lines along Baltic Cir north of Jenkinsville. Time estimated.
July 2011HailMonticello-Public reported nickel size hail.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMonticello-DOT reported a few trees down on secondary roads.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Dawkins3.7 miles15
Sueville (historical)3.8 miles15
Salem Crossroads4.8 miles14
Rock Creek5.1 miles14
Strother5.8 miles15
Jenkinsville5.9 miles15
Parr6.2 miles15
Lebanon6.4 miles14

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 MonticelloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6905939The 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 1231555. 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.