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Santuc, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Carlisle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29379. The Survey maps it on the Union East quadrangle.

Santuc within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Santuc between 1992 and 2020, burning about 662 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning32
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2001Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2008Natural14 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

12 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santuc in 12 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
January 2020Thunderstorm WindSantuc$5,000NWS co-op observer reported multiple trees blown down, with one on a house in the Santuc area.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSantuc-Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines.
May 2024HailSantuc-Public reported (via Social media) golf ball size hail in the Santuc area.
March 2021HailSantuc-Public reported quarter size hail.
June 2016HailSantuc-Public reported 3/4 inch hail in the Santuc community.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSantuc-County comms reported a tree blown down across Whitney Rd (6.5 SSE) and another tree down along Berry Farm Rd (10.5 SSE).
March 2012HailSantuc-Quarter size hail was reported on Santuc Dr.
March 2012HailSantuc-Hail up to the size of quarters covered the ground.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSantuc-A tree was blown down on Bob Adams Rd.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSantuc-Trees were blown down on highway 215 and a gas pump was damage in the Santuck community.
November 2004Tornado (F0)Santuc-Storm survey found apparent tornado northwest of Santuck with some light wind damage extending to the southeast from around Carlisle to the Chester line.
July 2009HailSantuc-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Gregory (historical)2.6 miles12
Meador (historical)3.6 miles12
Red Town (historical)3.8 miles12
Red Point (historical)4.1 miles13
Carlisle4.3 miles13
Neal Shoals4.4 miles13
Ada (historical)4.7 miles12
Carem5.0 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122558916The 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 1250785. 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.