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Singleton, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the St. Matthews census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29135. The Survey maps it on the Fort Motte quadrangle.

Singleton within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Singleton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 439 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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 burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
9 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Singleton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Roof PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Singleton in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSingleton$1,000Public reported a couple of trees down on a farm just off hwy 601.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSingleton-SC Dept of Transportation reported individual trees down at the following locations: intersection of Bridge St and Sikes Rd (power line down also), intersection of Hemlock Rd and Colonel Thompson Hwy (Hwy 601), and near the intersection of Stiffmire Rd and Old Number Six Hwy.
September 2020Tornado (EF0)Singleton-A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed an EF-0 tornado, with peak wind speeds of 75 mph, east of St. George in Calhoun County, SC. The weak tornado uprooted several hardwood trees and snapped large tree limbs in the vicinity of Longstreet Rd and Darby Rd.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSingleton-SC Highway Patrol reported 2 trees down at 2175 Col Thomson Highway.
July 2009HailSingleton-Public reported penny size hail just off of hwy 601 outside of St. Matthews.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSingleton-Highway Department reported trees down on Longstreet Road.
July 2007HailSingleton-Penny size hail was reported by Tri County Electric COOP near Lone Star.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Saint Matthews3.2 miles13
Wiles Crossroads3.5 miles13
Fort Motte3.8 miles13
Wertz Crossroads4.8 miles13
Totness5.1 miles13
Riley6.1 miles13
Weeks Landing6.9 miles13
Hammond Crossroads7.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231801. 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.