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Sardinia, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sardinia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29051. The Survey maps it on the Sardinia quadrangle. It stands 102 feet above sea level.

Sardinia within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

321 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 321 fires within 5 miles of Sardinia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,611 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 73 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 burning129
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Arson/incendiarism73
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking6
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
4 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use14 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2005Debris and open burning5.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sardinia in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSardinia-SC DPS website reported a tree down on I-95 near Exit 132. Time estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Clarendon 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
Gable1.5 miles16
New Zion2.9 miles16
Beards Crossroads2.9 miles16
Wilson Crossroads3.2 miles16
Durant3.8 miles16
Seloc5.1 miles16
Turbeville5.2 miles16
Union Crossroads5.6 miles8

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 SardiniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988786The 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 1231777. 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.