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Singletary Forks, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Trio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29510. The Survey maps it on the Jamestown quadrangle.

Singletary Forks within Williamsburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Singletary Forks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,068 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 56 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/undetermined65
Arson/incendiarism56
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
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
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2012Natural10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2012Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Singletary Forks: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Georgetown QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Georgetown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Singletary Forks in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 1 hail, 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSingletary Forks-Downed power lines were reported on Island Road.
June 2008HailSingletary Forks-Pea to penny size hail resulted in minor damage to a small satellite dish.

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg 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
Cedar Creek1.9 miles8
Martin Corner3.7 miles8
Suttons3.8 miles8
Oak Ridge5.1 miles8
Cook Corner5.5 miles8
Cherry Hill6.3 miles9
Earle8.0 miles8
Trio9.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122598312The 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 1230329. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.