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Witherbee, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29434. The Survey maps it on the Bethera quadrangle.

Witherbee within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

274 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Witherbee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,200 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 143 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/incendiarism143
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3

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
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsQUITTING TIME
28 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsLTD
18 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsHURRICANE
12 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2004Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsSHOTGUN
3 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National Forestsnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Witherbee in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 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 2014Thunderstorm WindWitherbee-Multiple trees down at Cordesville Road and Witherbee Road near Moncks Corner.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Burtons (historical)0.5 miles11
Razorville (historical)1.6 miles11
Spring Head (historical)1.7 miles11
Limerick1.9 miles11
Kensington2.2 miles11
Conifer (historical)2.8 miles11
Cordesville3.5 miles12
Bethera3.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231933. 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.