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Rodman, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29706. The Survey maps it on the Edgemoor quadrangle.

Rodman within Chester County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Rodman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 423 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning37
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
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
3 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rodman in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2016: 2 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRodman-County comms reported multiple trees blown down in the eastern part of the county, especially in the Edgemoor and Richburg areas.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRodman-Several large limbs and the tops of some trees were blown out in the Rodman community.

Every storm recorded in Chester 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
Lewis2.5 miles15
Hicklin Crossing2.6 miles15
Knox3.3 miles12
Lewisville (historical)3.7 miles12
Smith3.9 miles15
Orrs4.0 miles12
Lando4.2 miles15
Edgemoor4.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231743. 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.