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Sawyerdale, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Springfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29112. The Survey maps it on the Harleys Millpond quadrangle.

Sawyerdale within Orangeburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Sawyerdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,331 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined59
Debris and open burning53
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural5
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
3 September 1999Smoking3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg County

Storms near this place

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sawyerdale in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2025FloodSawyerdale-Orangeburg county EM reports Salley Road flooded with 2 feet of water and closed.
May 2025FloodSawyerdale-Emergency manager reported that Ninety-Six Road was closed due to flooding near the 1300 block.
November 2024Flash FloodSawyerdale-Orangeburg County and SC state officials confirmed a breach of Busbees Pond dam. No damage was reported as a result of the breach.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSawyerdale-Trees down on Ninety 6 Rd and Eugene St.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSawyerdale-Trees down along Salley Rd near the town of North.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSawyerdale-SCHP reported trees down on Salley Rd at Williamson Johnson Rd.
April 2013HailSawyerdale-Public reported quarter size hail along Salley, Brim, and Van Pond roads.
March 2012HailSawyerdale-Convenience store reported quarter size hail which covered the ground of some nearby homes.

Every storm recorded in Orangeburg 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
Livingston6.5 miles13
Springfield7.0 miles15
Neeses7.0 miles13
North7.0 miles13
Boiling Spring (historical)7.7 miles13
Woodford8.3 miles13
Pine Hill10.8 miles13
Norway11.1 miles14

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 Q122546177The 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 1242840. 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.