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Pumpkintown, South Carolina

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Pickens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29671. It stands on Adams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Table Rock quadrangle. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Pumpkintown within Pickens County

On record in Pumpkintown

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Pumpkintown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 380 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined80
Debris and open burning64
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
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
7 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pumpkintown in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 8 injuries. 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
April 2020Tornado (EF2)Pumpkintown8 hurt, $200,000NWS Storm Survey determined the path of a tornado that began in northern Pickens County near the intersection of Highway 8 and Log House Rd. Numerous trees were uprooted and large trees snapped as the tornado moved northeast, crossing Dacusville Highway, Cedar Rd, and the Oolenoy River. From there, it moved roughly parallel to Highway 288 before crossing into Greenville County. The most significant damage was found along the banks of the Saluda River, including along Yankee Rebel Pt and Sherwood Rd, where two mobile homes were rolled and several large hardwood trees snapped. A total of eight people were injured in this area.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown$5,000Trained spotter reported a tree down blocking the road at Connelly Road and Highway 8. Public reported (via Social Media) a tree down on a house on Noble Rd.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown$1,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2024HailPumpkintown-NWS co-op observer reported up to quarter size hail.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown-Public reported a couple of trees blown down in an area just northeast of Table Rock State Park.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown-County comms reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across northern and eastern sections of Pickens County.
July 2017HailPumpkintown-Trained spotters reported nickel size hail at Lake Oolenoy, with dime to penny size hail in and around Pumpkintown.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown-Power lines were blown down a little to the southeast of Pumpkinville.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown-Highway Patrol reported trees blown down near the intersection of highway 135 and Mt Tabor Rd and numerous trees down in and around Easley.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown-Several large tree limbs blown down around Table Rock State Park.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown-Multiple large tree limbs were blown down in and around Pumpkintown.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown-A tree was blown down onto power lines and multiple large limbs downed about 2 miles southeast of Pumpkintown.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown-A tree was blown down on New Hope Rd near highway 8, and another was blown down nearby at the intersection of highways 8 and 288.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown-A few trees were blown down along highway 288.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown-A couple trees were blown down.
January 1998Flash FloodPumpkintown-Heavy rain caused Laurel and Hardy Lake to rise above full pool and resulted in the evacuation of nearby residents.
June 2011HailPumpkintown-no account filed
June 2010HailPumpkintown-no account filed
July 2002HailPumpkintown-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPumpkintown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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
Liberia1.4 miles21
Knob (historical)1.5 miles21
Midway4.9 miles17
Olga (historical)5.0 miles15
Wattacoo (historical)5.0 miles15
Pleasant View5.1 miles17
Prices Store (historical)5.6 miles16
Hendricks6.0 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 PumpkintownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7259859The 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 1250271. 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.