Ruffin, South Carolina

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 1 record

• Ruffin High and Elementary Schoollisted 2025

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.

• 1919 USGS Lodge quadrangle1:62500
• 1920 USGS Lodge quadrangle1:48000
• 1921 USGS Lodge quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1943 USGS Lodge quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Orangeburg quadrangle1:125000
• 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Williams quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Ruffin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,794 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 71 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Smyly
• Pattillo (historical)
• Williams
• Bells Crossroads
• Hudsons Mill
• Smoaks

Every fire recorded in Colleton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ruffin in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 9 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.

Every storm recorded in Colleton County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231754. 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.