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Sato, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Denmark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29042. The Survey maps it on the Denmark quadrangle.

Sato within Bamberg County

On record in Sato

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Sato between 1992 and 2020, burning about 584 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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 burning70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
30 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2014Debris and open burning40 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bamberg County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sato in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 3 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 2022Thunderstorm WindSato-SCHP reported trees down on SC Hwy 70 and Woodland Rd north of Denmark. Time estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSato-SCHP reported trees down on Guess Dr in Denmark. Time estimated.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSato-Bamberg County dispatch reported trees down on Church St near Denmark.

Every storm recorded in Bamberg 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
Denmark0.8 miles15
Ott (historical)1.9 miles15
Loraine (historical)3.0 miles15
Fogles (historical)3.1 miles15
Finland3.6 miles15
Luther (historical)3.6 miles15
Sweden4.0 miles14
Lees4.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230982. 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.