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Tarboro, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Grays-Tillman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29943. The Survey maps it on the Pineland quadrangle.

Tarboro within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

305 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 305 fires within 5 miles of Tarboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,910 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 68 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 burning123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism68
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tarboro in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindTarboro$2,500Trees were reported down in Tarboro.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTarboro$2,000Law Enforcement reported several trees down on Route 321 in Tarboro, South Carolina.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindTarboro$1,750The Jasper County 911 Call Center reported power lines on fire due to fallen branches|near the intersection of Cotton Hill Road and Cypress Branch Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindTarboro$1,000The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported two trees down on U.S. Route 321 between Bettersen Road and Tarboro Road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindTarboro$1,000Law enforcement reported a tree down on Cotton Hill Road near Tarboro.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTarboro$1,000Large tree limbs fell on power lines knocking out power.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindTarboro$500Law Enforcement reported a tree down on Cotton Hill Road in Tarboro, South Carolina.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindTarboro-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down along Highway 321 south of Tarboro Road.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTarboro-The Jasper County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Pinehaven Drive and Dasher Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTarboro-South Carolina Department of Transportation reported a tree down at the intersection of Highway 321 and Tarboro Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTarboro-Jasper County dispatch reported a tree down with power lines on Sand Hills Road west of Highway 321.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindTarboro-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at Highway 321 and Tarboro Road.
September 2012HailTarboro-A 911 call center reported quarter size hail.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindTarboro-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on Highway 321 near Tarboro.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindTarboro-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and large limbs.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindTarboro-Several trees were down.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindTarboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
New Landing4.2 miles17
Robertville4.4 miles17
Groover Landing4.7 miles15
Pineland4.7 miles17
Myers (historical)5.3 miles15
Tillman5.3 miles15
Cosby6.1 miles17
Berrys Landing8.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231852. 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.