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Mouzon, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Kingstree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29556. It stands on Pudding Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Workman quadrangle.

Mouzon within Williamsburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

344 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Mouzon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,597 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 84 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 burning118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined116
Arson/incendiarism84
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2017Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mouzon: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, 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
Unnamed Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
McKenzie Pit # 2SandProducerSedimentary
McKenzie Pit # 2SandProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mouzon in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindMouzon$30,000A National Weather Service Storm Survey concluded a microburst with winds to 65 mph ripped the roof off of a single wide mobile home and partially tore the siding off of a manufactured home. Ten large trees were snapped or uprooted. The damage occurred from near Violet Road to Lynchburg Road. The path length was 230 yards. The maximum path width was 0.5 miles.
July 2012HailMouzon$1,250Hail to the size of golf balls was reported in the Mouzon community.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindMouzon$1,000A tree was reported down on Sumter Hwy. The time was estimated based on radar data.
November 2011Thunderstorm WindMouzon$1,000A large tree was reported down on McClam Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2001Flash FloodMouzon-Spotter reported four inches of rainfall in 90 minutes, causing ditches to flood into the roads.

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg 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
Workman2.2 miles8
Martins Crossroads2.9 miles8
Hebron Crossroads6.0 miles8
Belsers Crossroads6.3 miles8
Baker Crossroads6.3 miles8
Brockington6.5 miles8
Kingstree6.9 miles8
Clarks Crossroads7.2 miles8

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 Q122547512The 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 1249753. 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.