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Pocotaligo, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Ridgeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29945. The Survey maps it on the Yemassee quadrangle.

Pocotaligo within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

406 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 406 fires within 5 miles of Pocotaligo between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,554 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 134 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/undetermined159
Arson/incendiarism134
Debris and open burning78
Equipment and vehicle use16
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural3
Smoking2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pocotaligo in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 7 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindPocotaligo$1,000South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree in the roadway on Kress Road near Hamilton Place.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPocotaligo$1,000A large scrub Oak was reported down at the KOA Campground at Point South by exit 33 on Interstate 95.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPocotaligo$250The public reported several 3 inch diameter tree limbs down at the Point South Campground, 1 mile west of Pocotaligo, South Carolina.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPocotaligo-Three trees were reported down on Interstate 95.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPocotaligo-DOT reported a tree down on Mackay Point Road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindPocotaligo-One tree and power line were reported down along Interstate 95 near Point South and one tree was also reported down on Pocotaligo Road.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindPocotaligo-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and large limbs.

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
Kress1.2 miles19
Gilmania3.1 miles19
Coosawhatchie4.8 miles19
Possum Corner6.8 miles19
Bashan7.4 miles19
Gillisonville7.7 miles16
Grays8.7 miles16
Knowles8.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231674. 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.