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Stoneboro, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 29058. The Survey maps it on the Heath Springs quadrangle.

Stoneboro within Kershaw County

On record in Stoneboro

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Stoneboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 511 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Smoking2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kershaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Stoneboro: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Dimension, 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
Carolina Diamond Gray QuarryStone, DimensionUnknownIgneous
Diamond Gray QuarryGranitePast Producer
Parker Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Congaree QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous
Excelsior Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous
Liberty Hill QuarryStoneUnknownIgneous
Liberty Hill QuarryStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Kershaw County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stoneboro in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
December 2009Flash FloodStoneboro$10,000Sheriff departments in Lancaster, Chesterfield, Kershaw, and Fairfield counties reported considerable flash flooding in portions of their counties. Many streams were overflowing roads, bridges, and flooding low lying areas.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindStoneboro-Kershaw County Sheriff Dispatch reported a large tree down on Flat Rock Road.

Every storm recorded in Kershaw 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
Warrington2.3 miles13
Robinson Crossroad5.1 miles13
Liberty Hill5.5 miles15
Coats Crossroad5.8 miles13
Flat Rock7.3 miles19
Red Hill8.0 miles19
Westville9.3 miles19
Gaston Mill10.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1251052. 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.