Wando, South Carolina

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Cainhoy Historic Districtlisted 1982 · 0.4 miles away

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

• St. Thomas and St. Dennis Church, 1507 Cainhoy Road, Wandofederal building survey, 13 photographs
• St. Thomas and St. Dennis Church, Vestry House, 1507 Cainhoy Road, Wandofederal building survey, 2 photographs

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.

• 1919 USGS Wando quadrangle1:21120, 5 printings
• 1943 USGS Wando quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Cainhoy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1968 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS James Island quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS James Island quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS James Island quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Wando between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,685 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 90 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cainhoy
• Old Vat (historical)
• Charity
• Gehlkin (historical)
• Green Bay
• Red Bank Landing

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wando: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Berkeley County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wando in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Berkeley County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230460. 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.