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Pineland, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Grays-Tillman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29934. The Survey maps it on the Pineland quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Pineland within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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 Pineland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,579 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 70 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 burning140
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Arson/incendiarism70
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural13
Smoking4
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pineland in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 23 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 1995HailPineland$5,000Three-quarters inch hail and trees down.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindPineland$1,000The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Cypress Branch Road near the intersection with Gillison Branch road.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPineland$1,0002 trees down on Highway 601 near county line.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPineland$500Jasper County dispatch reported a tree down near Pineland. The event occurred with outflow ahead of a thunderstorm.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindPineland$500Jasper County 911 Center reported a tree down near the Pineland Post Office.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindPineland$500Law Enforcement reported a tree in the roadway at Cypress Branch Road and Gillison Branch Road.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPineland$500South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Calf Pen Bay Road near Cypress Branch Road, in Pineland, South Carolina.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindPineland$500An electric company reported 1 tree down on Woodsville Road near Pineland, South Carolina.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindPineland-Jasper County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Tye Branch Road and Richard Pollins Road.
February 2021HailPineland-A report received via social media showed an image of ping pong size hail near Calf Pen Bay Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindPineland-Law enforcement reported trees down on Gillison Branch Road and Calf Pen Bay Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPineland-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Highway 601 near Pineland.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPineland-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Gillison Branch Road near Cypress Branch Road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPineland-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Calf Pen Bay Road near Pineland, SC.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPineland-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Highway 601 near Holman Hill Road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPineland-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Tye Branch Road near the intersection with Highway 601.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindPineland-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway at the intersection of Pineland Road and Highway 652.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPineland-Law enforcement reported a tree down on Calf Pen Bay Road near the intersection with Cohen Road.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindPineland-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Cohen Road and Calf Pen Bay Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPineland-Jasper County dispatch reported a tree down along Highway 601 near the Tye Branch Road intersection.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindPineland-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway in the 300 block of Tye Branch Spur near Lee Lawyer Road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindPineland-The Jasper County 911 Call Center reported a tree down at the corner of Gillison Branch Road and Cypress Branch Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPineland-South Carolina Department of Transportation reported a tree down at the intersection of Cohen Road and Calf Pen Bay Road.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindPineland-Several trees, large limbs, and power lines were down.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindPineland-Several trees down, one fell on a building, and several large limbs down.

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Robertville2.3 miles17
Tarboro4.7 miles17
Cosby4.9 miles17
Myers (historical)6.4 miles15
New Landing7.1 miles17
Gillisonville8.3 miles16
Groover Landing8.5 miles15
Grays9.0 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on PinelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30621947The 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 1231661. 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.