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White Oak, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winnsboro North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29180. The Survey maps it on the Winnsboro quadrangle.

White Oak within Fairfield County

On record in White Oak

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of White Oak between 1992 and 2019, burning about 504 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2009Debris and open burning3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Storms near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Oak in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2007Tornado (EF0)White Oak$35,000An EF0 touched town in the White Oak area and took down large trees and did minor damage to a church. Two vehicles were crushed under one tree with no occupants inside.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak$2,000Highway Patrol reported trees down near White Oak.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak-Large trees were uprooted at Patrick Rd and US Hwy 321 in White Oak. Time estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak-Report of tree down on US Hwy 321 at White Oak. Time estimated.
May 2012HailWhite Oak-Electric COOP employee reported quarter size hail in the White Oak area.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak-County EM reported trees down in Northern Fairfield County from White Oak to Mitford.
May 2006HailWhite Oak-Highway dept reported quarter size hail in White Oak.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Adger2.7 miles14
Woodward4.7 miles13
Gladden Grove (historical)5.8 miles13
Lebanon6.4 miles14
Winnsboro6.7 miles15
Douglass7.1 miles14
Stover7.4 miles13
Winnsboro Mills7.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231916. 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.