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Wiggins, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Green Pond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29446. It stands on Chehaw River. The Survey maps it on the Wiggins quadrangle.

Wiggins within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Wiggins between 1993 and 2017, burning about 275 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 May 2000Equipment and vehicle use65 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2001Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 March 1999Arson/incendiarism13 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton 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 Wiggins: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Peat. 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
Airy Hall Peat MinePeatProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Colleton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wiggins in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2024Flash FloodWiggins$20,000Colleton County Emergency Management reported a road washout at 5000 Wiggins Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWiggins-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down along the 3000 Block of Wiggins Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWiggins-A trained spotter reported a large tree limb down on power lines along Wiggins Road. The damage caused a power outage in the area.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindWiggins-Several trees and large limbs were down.

Every storm recorded in Colleton 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
Ashepoo Siding3.2 miles18
Bennetts Point5.6 miles18
Fenwick5.9 miles17
Hickory Hill6.3 miles18
Seabrook9.0 miles18
Ashepoo9.4 miles18
Green Pond9.5 miles18
White Hall11.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231924. 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.