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Moselle, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lodge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29929. The Survey maps it on the Crocketville quadrangle.

Moselle within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Moselle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,050 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 17 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 burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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 2020Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2015Debris and open burning20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1999Natural2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton County

Storms near this place

14 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moselle in 14 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Flash FloodMoselle$25,000Colleton County Emergency Management provided pictures of roadway damage on Cayce Road not far from the intersection with Broxton Bridge Highway due to heavy rainfall associated with Tropical Storm Idalia. The culvert pipe failed and more than half of that portion of the roadway collapsed.
June 2023LightningMoselle$4,000The Colleton County 911 Call Center reported a tree struck by lightning falling down and taking three other trees down with it on Moselle Road near Barnes Road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMoselle$1,000Law enforcement reported a tree down on a road and residence, blocking one lane near the intersection of Cayce Road and Mount Nebo Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMoselle$1,000Colleton County dispatch reported one tree down near Broxton Bridge Plantation.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindMoselle$1,000SC Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Moselle and Cayce Road.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindMoselle$500Law Enforcement reported a tree in the roadway near the intersection of Cayce road and Moselle road.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMoselle$500One tree down at the intersection of Cross Swamp Road and Connelly Road.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMoselle$500South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Cross Swamp Road near the intersection of Moselle Road, 2 miles east of Miley, South Carolina.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMoselle-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree and power lines down and blocking both lanes on the 5400 Block of Cross Swamp Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMoselle-The Colleton County 911 Call Center reported a tree down at the 1600 Block of Broxton Bridge Highway.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindMoselle-Law enforcement reported a tree in roadway near the intersection of Cayce Road and Moselle Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMoselle-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at Highway 641 and River Bridge Road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindMoselle-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Cross Swamp Road and Connley Road.
June 2007HailMoselle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colleton 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
Tobys Bluff4.0 miles16
Ashton4.1 miles18
Islandton5.7 miles16
Lodge7.7 miles18
Caldwell7.8 miles18
Colleton8.6 miles18
Bells Crossroads8.6 miles16
Varntown (historical)9.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1224665. 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.