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White Pond, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Windsor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29853. The Survey maps it on the Williston quadrangle.

White Pond within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

345 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 345 fires within 5 miles of White Pond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,652 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 23 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 burning161
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Arson/incendiarism23
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural17
Smoking7
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
6 September 2009Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionWINDSOR ROAD
6 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning4.7 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Pond in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindWhite Pond$3,000DOT reported several trees down on US 378.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWhite Pond-Aiken Co dispatch reported a downed tree at Moseley Rd and Telfair Dr NW of Williston. Time estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWhite Pond-SCHP reported trees down on Heritage Rd at Charleston Hwy (US Hwy 78).
May 2016Heavy RainWhite Pond-CoCoRaHS Observer reported 1.55 inches of rainfall in the past 90 minutes.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWhite Pond-Highway Department reported a tree down on U.S. Highway 278 AND Silver Bluff Road.

Every storm recorded in Aiken 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
Spring Branch (historical)2.6 miles16
Mount Beulah3.5 miles17
Windsor4.4 miles17
Apia (historical)6.4 miles15
Oakwood8.6 miles15
Kitchings Mill10.5 miles12
Montmorenci11.1 miles18
New Ellenton11.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227558. 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.