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Robertville, 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 29922. The Survey maps it on the Pineland quadrangle.

Robertville within Jasper County

On record in Robertville

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 2 records

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

317 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 317 fires within 5 miles of Robertville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,262 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 64 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 burning119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined94
Arson/incendiarism64
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Other causes2
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
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 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burningunder 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

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robertville in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 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 2024Thunderstorm WindRobertville$1,000DOT reported a tree down on Clyo Road.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindRobertville$500Law Enforcement reported a tree in the roadway at Robertville and Cotton Hill Roads.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRobertville$500South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at Highway 119 and Sand Hills Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRobertville-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Highway 321 between Robertville and Highway 601.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindRobertville-Law enforcement reported a tree down on Stokes Bluff Road at the intersection with River Bluff Lane.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRobertville-The Jasper County Warning Point reported a tree down near the intersection of Janie Lane and Pleasant Hill Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRobertville-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Clyo Road near the intersection with Highway 119.
March 2012HailRobertville-Public reported penny sized hail at the Jasper County Recycling Center.

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
Pineland2.3 miles17
Cosby2.7 miles17
Myers (historical)4.3 miles15
Tarboro4.4 miles17
New Landing5.4 miles17
Groover Landing7.1 miles15
Tillman9.8 miles15
Gillisonville10.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1250407. 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.