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Oakwood, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Windsor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29803. The Survey maps it on the Oakwood quadrangle.

Oakwood within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

393 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 393 fires within 5 miles of Oakwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,547 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 29 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 burning163
Missing data/not specified/undetermined101
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Arson/incendiarism29
Equipment and vehicle use25
Natural19
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes5
Recreation and ceremony2
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
8 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Natural29 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Other causesunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakwood in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindOakwood$4,000DOT reported several trees down in the Oakwood and Kitchens Mill areas.

Every storm recorded in Aiken 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
Apia (historical)2.6 miles15
Montmorenci2.8 miles18
Couchton3.6 miles15
Nicholson Village4.5 miles18
Windsor4.5 miles17
Quail Hollow4.9 miles18
Roseland5.0 miles18
Barclay Park5.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1225153. 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.