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Pimlico, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Moncks Corner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29461. It stands on Molly Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kittredge quadrangle.

Pimlico within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Pimlico between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,672 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 45 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/undetermined68
Debris and open burning61
Arson/incendiarism45
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural1
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Fireworksunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2011Natural40 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pimlico in 1 storm report in 1994: 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindPimlico-An area of thunderstorms, some locally severe, moved from west of Savannah northeast across southern and eastern South Carolina from Jasper County to Georgetown County. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines, damaged roofs, and caused other minor damage. Gusts over 57 mph were reported in Beaufort and 65-70 mph, five miles southwest of Summerville.

Every storm recorded in Berkeley 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
Strawberry Landing0.9 miles12
Mepkin1.3 miles12
Childsbury1.4 miles12
Rice Hope1.5 miles12
Wappoola1.6 miles12
Ellwood1.6 miles12
Tarry Town2.1 miles12
Kittredge2.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230571. 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.