Snowden, South Carolina

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.

• 1919 USGS Fort Moultrie quadrangle1:21120, 3 printings
• 1943 USGS Fort Moultrie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Fort Moultrie quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1968 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS James Island quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS James Island quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Snowden between 1992 and 2015, burning about 919 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Palmetto Fort
• Parish Place
• Point Pleasant
• Somerset Point
• Wando Estates
• Porcher Bluff

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Snowden: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Charleston County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snowden in 21 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Charleston County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1226734. 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.