Bethany, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the McCormick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29845. It stands on Church Branch. The Survey maps it on the Parksville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bethany within McCormick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1892 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1912 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Parksville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Bethany (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,034 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined	29
Debris and open burning	22
Natural	15
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Firearms and explosives use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	19 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	BEAVER
21 September 2019	Smoking	3.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	BEAVER 2
10 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named
1 September 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Whitetown	3.2 miles	16
Parks Mill	4.0 miles	16
Liberty Hill	4.9 miles	16
Whites Cross Roads (historical)	5.1 miles	16
Parksville	5.7 miles	16
Plum Branch	5.8 miles	16
Dornville (historical)	6.8 miles	16
Modoc	8.5 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241317. 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.