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Willtown Bluff, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Ravenel-Hollywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29449. The Survey maps it on the Fenwick quadrangle.

Willtown Bluff within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Willtown Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,441 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 43 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 burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined66
Arson/incendiarism43
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAce Basin National Wildlife RefugeCAMPER FIRE
6 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2001Arson/incendiarism22 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Willtown Bluff: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Green Pond MinePeatUnknownSedimentary
T.T. Mine (Ti Ti Mine)PeatProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Charleston County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willtown Bluff in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 4 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 2012Thunderstorm WindWilltown Bluff$1,000One tree down on SC Highway 174, near Dahoo Bridge.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindWilltown Bluff-The Ace Basin RAWS recorded a wind gust of 61 miles per hour.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindWilltown Bluff-A 60 mph wind gust was recorded at the Ace Basin RAWS site ABRS1.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWilltown Bluff-A 60 mph wind gust was recorded at the ACE Basin RAWS site.

Every storm recorded in Charleston 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
Barrelville3.3 miles18
Adams Run4.5 miles18
Shiloh4.6 miles17
Pine Landing5.4 miles18
Parkers Ferry5.6 miles16
Ponpon5.8 miles16
Osborn6.4 miles16
Little Edisto6.6 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Willtown BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18159307The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1228003. 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.