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Suttons, South Carolina

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

Suttons 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

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Suttons between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,993 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 101 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/undetermined130
Arson/incendiarism101
Debris and open burning56
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking4
Natural2
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
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2011Arson/incendiarism22 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsLAUREL
28 July 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Suttons in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
October 2015Flash FloodSuttons$2,000June Branch Avenue was reported flooded.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSuttons$1,500A large tree was reported down across Santee Road.
August 2024Flash FloodSuttons$1,000Flooding reported along Santee Road in Williamsburg county south of Andrews.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSuttons-Tree down partially blocking Santee Road between Strong Road and Wee Tee Road.

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
Martin Corner2.2 miles8
Singletary Forks3.8 miles8
Cedar Creek5.3 miles8
Oak Ridge5.6 miles8
Cook Corner6.4 miles8
Trio6.5 miles8
Blakely7.0 miles9
Earle7.5 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 Q122548552The 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 1251082. 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.

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.