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Wilson, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Manning East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29102. The Survey maps it on the Foreston quadrangle.

Wilson within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

430 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 430 fires within 5 miles of Wilson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,368 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 94 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/undetermined151
Debris and open burning149
Arson/incendiarism94
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
9 September 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilson in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 6 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWilson$50,000EM reported a microburst took down trees and blew a steeple off a church. Underpinning was also torn off a mobile home and several framed homes and the church had shingles blown off.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWilson$6,000Santee Electric Coop reported several trees and powerlines down along highway 261.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWilson-Clarendon EM reported several trees down in and around the Manning area. Time estimated by radar.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWilson-Santee Electric Coop reported a tree on power lines at the intersection of Dozier Mallett Road and Mallett Road.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindWilson-Trees fell on a power line along US Hwy 521 SE of Manning.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWilson-Trees down on Kingstree Hwy and S Brewington Rd.

Every storm recorded in Clarendon 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
Baggette Crossroads2.7 miles16
Bloomville3.0 miles16
Foreston3.7 miles17
Brewington (historical)4.3 miles17
Country Club Estates4.4 miles16
Bonanza (historical)4.9 miles17
Manning5.4 miles16
James Crossroads5.6 miles16

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 WilsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073143The 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 1251462. 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.