Windom Corner, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29450. It stands on Huitt Branch. The Survey maps it on the Shulerville quadrangle.

Windom Corner within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1943 USGS Shulerville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Windom Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,317 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 117 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
Arson/incendiarism	117
Debris and open burning	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	POWERLINE
5 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	DRIVE BY
5 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	GETRIM
16 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	TRAILBLAZER
1 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	GRAVE SIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Thomas Corner	1.8 miles	8
Oak Corner	2.4 miles	8
Halfway Creek	3.7 miles	10
Conifer (historical)	3.7 miles	11
Spring Hill (historical)	4.5 miles	13
Limerick	5.4 miles	11
Huger	5.5 miles	13
Shulerville	5.6 miles	8

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.

Wikidata item Q122549355

The 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 1230512. 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.