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Pisgah, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rembert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29128. The Survey maps it on the Spring Hill quadrangle.

Pisgah within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

361 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 361 fires within 5 miles of Pisgah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,040 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 33 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 burning166
Missing data/not specified/undetermined102
Arson/incendiarism33
Equipment and vehicle use22
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking8
Natural7
Other causes5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2002Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pisgah: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Unidentified MineClayUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pisgah in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
May 2011HailPisgah$2,000Sheriff reported golf ball size hail along Black River road.

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Ellerbee (historical)4.0 miles19
Rembert4.1 miles19
Borden5.2 miles16
Ellerbees Mill5.7 miles19
State Farm (historical)5.8 miles19
Burrows Crossroads6.4 miles16
Gaillard Crossroads7.0 miles16
Hagood7.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1250139. 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.