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Trio, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Trio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29510. The Survey maps it on the Trio quadrangle. It stands 56 feet above sea level.

Trio 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

911 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 911 fires within 5 miles of Trio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,465 acres in total. None started naturally. 332 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
Arson/incendiarism332
Missing data/not specified/undetermined299
Debris and open burning228
Equipment and vehicle use21
Smoking16
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burning9.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Trio: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Parsons MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trio in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
March 2008Tornado (EF1)Trio$200,000A National Weather Service Storm Survey concluded an EF1 tornado with winds to 100 mph developed just west of Steadfast Road where most of the damage occurred. The tornado dissipated just east of Jumpin Run Road. Thirty five homes were damaged, 7 suffered major damage and 5 were completely destroyed. The maximum path width was 75 yards. The path length was about 4 miles. Williamsburg County officials estimated the damage at $200,000 dollars.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindTrio$50,000National Weather Service storm damage assessment in Trio described damage to 5 model homes in the Blakely housing development due to straight line thunderstorm winds estimated at 65-75 mph. Dime-size hail was also reported in the town.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindTrio$50,000Thunderstorm wind gusts damaged 20 mobile homes and numerous trees were reported down. In addition, the wind damaged 30 to 40 acres of corn crop in the area.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTrio$10,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindTrio$5,000Strong winds blew the roof off a mobile home.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindTrio$1,000A tree was reported down at the intersection of Suttons Road and Aimwell Road.
April 2007HailTrio-Quarter size hail was reported in Cedar Creek.
June 2007HailTrio-Nickel size hail was reported.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTrio-Several power lines down west of SR 41 and north of SSR 45.
April 2006HailTrio-Penny size hail in Suttons.
April 2006HailTrio-Golfball size hail in Earle.

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
Blakely2.2 miles9
Tisdale3.3 miles8
Taft3.6 miles8
Earle4.6 miles8
Martin Corner5.3 miles8
Oak Ridge5.9 miles8
Carris6.2 miles8
Antioch6.4 miles9

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 TrioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14709666The 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 1227213. 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.