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Valentine, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Estill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29932. The Survey maps it on the Solomons Crossroads quadrangle.

Valentine within Hampton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Valentine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,146 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 39 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 burning75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism39
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
5 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton 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 Valentine: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Unidentified Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Hampton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valentine in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindValentine-A NWS employee reported three trees down on Highway 321 between Fairfax and Luray.
June 2013Flash FloodValentine-A trained spotter reported many farm fields completely flooded. The spotter estimated 5 inches of rain had already fallen since mid afternoon.

Every storm recorded in Hampton 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
Luray1.2 miles16
Gifford2.7 miles16
Peeples (historical)3.7 miles15
Rouse4.4 miles15
Lawtonville Crossroads4.8 miles15
Estill4.8 miles16
Dukes5.2 miles16
Lena5.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227993. 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.