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Woodlawn, South Carolina

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Parksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29821. The Survey maps it on the Clarks Hill quadrangle.

Woodlawn within McCormick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Woodlawn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 660 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning30
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

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 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-COLUMBIA-004
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance18 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodlawn in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$8,000County dispatch reported trees down on Lost Wilderness Road, Gilchrist Ferry Road, and Old Plum Branch Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$2,000DOT reported some trees down on Woodlawn Road.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-McCormick Co dispatch reported trees down at Hwy 28 and Hopewell Church Rd, south of Clarks Hill. Time estimated.
March 2010Tornado (EF1)Woodlawn-An EF1 tornado took down many trees along its path from the Sumter National Forest to just southwest of Edgefield.

Every storm recorded in McCormick 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
Meriwether2.4 miles24
Clarks Hill3.8 miles24
Modoc8.4 miles24
Parksville12.0 miles16
Bethany (historical)15.5 miles16
Parks Mill16.5 miles16
Whitetown16.5 miles16
Plum Branch16.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230519. 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.