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South Santee, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the McClellanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29458. It stands on Bouman Branch. The Survey maps it on the South Santee quadrangle.

South Santee within Charleston County

On record in South Santee

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

240 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of South Santee between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,638 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 78 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/undetermined86
Arson/incendiarism78
Debris and open burning56
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2002Natural18 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2011Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National Forestsnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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 South Santee: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
North Santee MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Charleston County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Santee in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2019: 1 tornado, 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 2019Thunderstorm WindSouth Santee-Four trees were reported blown down at the intersection of Rutledge Road and Highway 17.
August 2004Tornado (F0)South Santee-A weak tornado associated with Hurricane Charley tracked from Berkeley county into Charleston county briefly before dissipating. Trees were snapped along the tornado's path.

Every storm recorded in Charleston 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
Collins Creek1.2 miles9
Germantown2.2 miles9
Wambaw Corner2.9 miles9
Moores Corner5.7 miles11
McClellanville6.3 miles11
Tibwin8.3 miles11
Thompson Corner9.4 miles9
Laurel Hill Plantation10.8 miles11

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 Q122592747The 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 1230348. 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.