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Plantersville, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Plantersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29440. The Survey maps it on the Plantersville quadrangle.

Plantersville within Georgetown County

On record in Plantersville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Plantersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,949 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 52 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/undetermined73
Debris and open burning60
Arson/incendiarism52
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6
Fireworks1
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
5 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Natural7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2008Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Georgetown County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plantersville in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
September 2018Flash FloodPlantersville1 killed, $20,000A person accidentally drove into a flooded area and drowned.
May 2015LightningPlantersville1 hurtA man was under his truck when it was struck by lightning. He sustained only minor injuries.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPlantersville$7,000A National Weather Service Storm Survey found 10 pine trees down. The damage was the result of a microburst.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPlantersville$3,000Trees were reported down in the 14000 block of N Fraser Street.
October 2015Flash FloodPlantersville$2,000Portions of Lamb Road were reported flooded.
June 2020HailPlantersville-Quarter size hail was reported in Plantersville.
August 2000HailPlantersville-Fire department reported dime size hail.
April 1999HailPlantersville-Sheriff reported hail and wind gusts over 60 mph causing a power outage in the area.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPlantersville-WIND GUST TO 50 KTS DOWNED TREES IN THE YAUHANNAH COMMUNITY (ABOUT 5N OF PLANTERSVILLE)
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPlantersville-Trees down.
May 1999HailPlantersville-no account filed
April 1997HailPlantersville-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindPlantersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Georgetown 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
Saint Pauls2.1 miles9
Gilliard2.9 miles9
Jackson4.0 miles9
Mount Tabor4.4 miles9
Belin4.6 miles9
Ruinsville4.7 miles9
Lower Topsaw Landing5.0 miles9
Mount Rena5.2 miles9

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 PlantersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q268293The 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 1225523. 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.