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Talatha, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the New Ellenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29803. The Survey maps it on the New Ellenton quadrangle.

Talatha within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Talatha between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,364 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 22 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 burning94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined71
Natural22
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Other causes2

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this place

10 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Talatha in 10 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindTalatha$4,000Highway Patrol reported trees down along Hwy 278 near Three Runs Creek.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindTalatha$2,000Sheriff reported trees down east of Jackson.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindTalatha-Aiken County Sheriff Office reported trees down along Hwy 278 and Boggy Gut Rd. Time estimated by radar.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindTalatha-Aiken County EM reported a tree fell on a car and destroyed it on Jackson Ave. Time estimated by radar.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTalatha-SC Highway Patrol reports a tree down in the roadway along US 278 at SC 19. Time estimated by radar.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindTalatha-Sheriff dispatch reported trees down along Williston Rd near Boggy Gut Rd.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindTalatha-Public report, via social media, of multiple trees down and minor structural damage at Three Runs Plantation near New Ellenton. Time estimated.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTalatha-Tree in roadway at Boggy Gut Rd and US Hwy 278. Time estimated.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindTalatha-Instrument in Savannah River Site at Area A wind tower, at 200 feet above the ground, measured a wind gust of 81 MPH between 1115 PM and 1130 PM EDT.
June 2013Heavy RainTalatha-Spotter reported 3.70 inches of rain since 8am with 2 inches falling between 1:40 and 2:10pm EDT.

Every storm recorded in Aiken 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
Johnson Crossroads1.1 miles18
New Ellenton2.1 miles18
Dry Branch2.7 miles18
Oak Hill3.4 miles18
Hawthorne (historical)4.3 miles18
Hollow Creek4.5 miles19
Chukker Creek6.1 miles18
Talatha Farms6.1 miles18

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 Q122550376The 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 1227022. 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.