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Bethera, 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. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Bethera 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

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Bethera between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,693 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 122 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/incendiarism122
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning13
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsQUITTING TIME
27 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsHURRICANE
30 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsSHOTGUN
23 August 1995Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsFREEMAN
23 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsTRAILBLAZER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bethera in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBethera$1,000SC Highway Patrol reported a tree down along Route 41.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBethera$500Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 41 and Boggy Head Road, 6 miles southwest of Jamestown, South Carolina.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBethera-A Berkeley County emergency manager reported a tree down on Bethera Road near the intersection with Ackerman Road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBethera-A Berkeley County emergency manager reported a tree down and across Bethera Road near the intersection with Boggy Swamp Road.
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Bethera-A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team confirmed an EF-0 tornado with an estimated maximum wind speed of 85 mph near Bethera, South Carolina. The weak tornado began just south of Lem Road, then moved north-northeast across Lem and Bethera roads, before dissipating just northwest of Bethera. The tornado snapped and uprooted multiple trees along the path, and at least one home had a limb blown onto the roof along Witherbee Road.
May 2009HailBethera-The public reported nickel size hail 1 mile southeast of Bethera, South Carolina.

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
Wrangle Town (historical)1.8 miles11
Spring Head (historical)1.9 miles11
Razorville (historical)2.0 miles11
Farewell Corner2.6 miles8
Conifer (historical)3.4 miles11
Witherbee3.5 miles11
Burtons (historical)4.0 miles11
Limerick4.7 miles11

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 BetheraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16840975The 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 1246810. 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.