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Tradesville, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tradesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29720. The Survey maps it on the Tradesville quadrangle. 253 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

Tradesville within Lancaster County

On record in Tradesville

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Tradesville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 456 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural6
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceWALTERS MILL RD
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Tradesville: 6 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Belk MineGoldPast Producer
Funderbunk MineGoldUnknownVein
Funderburk MineGoldPast Producer
Funderburk MineGoldPast Producer
Johnson MineGoldUnknownVein
Knight ProspectGoldPast Producer
Massey MineGoldPast Producer
Stroud ProspectGoldOccurrence
Stroud ProspectGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tradesville in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 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
April 2011HailTradesville$40,000Public reported golfball size hail covering the ground at the M and R Mini Mart.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindTradesville$2,000EMD reported a few trees down.
September 2012Flash FloodTradesville$2,000Public reported that Tradesville road was flooded and impassable.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindTradesville$2,000Sheriff reported a couple of trees down in the Tradesville area on Shiloh Unity and Quiet Acres roads.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTradesville$1,000Public reported very strong winds just southwest of Tradesville bending over a flag pole and putting a swing set up into a tree.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTradesville$500Public reported very strong winds taking down a flag pole and putting a swing set up into a tree.
May 2020Flash FloodTradesville$100Trained spotter reported flooding, south of Tradesville, on Old Camden Monroe Hwy, between Shiloh Unity Rd and SC Hwy 9, where the road crosses North Branch Wildcat Creek. Reported relayed via social media with a video showing the flooding. Times estimated.
September 2018Flash FloodTradesville$100Henderson Rd was washed out and impassable due to flooding. Times approximate.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTradesville-Power poles and tree limbs down. Report via mPING. Time estimated.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTradesville-Trees down on McTown Rd. Time estimated.
June 2014HailTradesville-Highway Patrol reported nickel size hail in Tradesville.
June 2014HailTradesville-Public reported quarter size or larger hail just southwest of Tradesville on Tradesville Road.
June 2014HailTradesville-Hail up to dime sized reported at a convenience store off of SC Hwy 9 near Tradesville.
June 2007HailTradesville-Public reported penny size hail.
May 2003HailTradesville-Fire Dept. reported 3/4 inch hail.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindTradesville-Newspaper reported trees and powerlines down between Tradesville, Antioch and Bufford.

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Stewart Crossroads3.5 miles12
Buford4.1 miles13
Lingles Crossroads4.4 miles14
Dwight Crossroads4.5 miles13
Doctor Sapps Crossroads5.0 miles14
Sapps Crossroads5.3 miles14
Union5.4 miles13
Taxahaw5.7 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on TradesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108649493The 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 1227190. 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.