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Padgetts, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Smoaks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29481. The Survey maps it on the Lodge quadrangle.

Padgetts within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Padgetts between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,363 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 21 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 burning79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined78
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism21
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
30 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.7 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton County

Storms near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Padgetts in 13 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
July 2013Flash FloodPadgetts$2,000Carters Road in Lodge was washed out.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPadgetts$2,000A state official reported trees down due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindPadgetts$1,250A Colleton County emergency manager reported power lines down on Buckhead Road.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindPadgetts$1,000Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down blocking one lane at the intersection of Lumber Road and Sleepy Hollow Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPadgetts$500A picture of a tree blown down by thunderstorm outflow winds was relayed by local broadcast media. The tree was down at a home on Garris Avenue.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPadgetts$500South Carolina Department of Transportation reported a tree down at the intersection of Buckhead Road and Lodge Highway.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPadgetts$500Law enforcement reported a tree down on Lumber Road, 1 mile northeast of Colleton, South Carolina.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPadgetts-Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down along the 2100 block of Buckhead Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPadgetts-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down near the intersection of Stickland Farm Road and Jewel Avenue.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPadgetts-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down in the 2200 Block of Lumber Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPadgetts-The South Carolina State Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Lodge Highway and Sunflower Drive.
March 2012HailPadgetts-Public reported quarter sized hail in Padgetts.
June 2008HailPadgetts-Penny size hail was reported by the public 4 miles southeast of Lodge, South Carolina.

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
Colleton2.2 miles18
Caldwell2.3 miles18
Williams3.5 miles18
Lodge3.6 miles18
Smoaks4.0 miles18
Smyly5.7 miles18
Ashton5.9 miles18
Ruffin6.0 miles18

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 Q122572971The 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 1250006. 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.