Carem, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Union census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29379. The Survey maps it on the Union East quadrangle.

Carem within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Union East quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Carem between 1992 and 2020, burning about 419 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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	98
Debris and open burning	48
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	5
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	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
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carem in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Carem	$1,000,000	An area of weak tornado damage was surveyed near the intersection of Neal Shoals Rd and Fairview Church Circle. Part of the roof was blown off a barn and shingles were removed from a house. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped in the area as well.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Carem	-	County comms reported a tree blown down and blocking the intersection of Neal Shoals Rd and Davis Jeter Rd, with another tree blocking a road closer to Monarch Mill.
December 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Carem	-	NWS damage survey found the path of an EF0 tornado that touched down on the eastern end of County Landfill Road where several large limbs were snapped and a tree blown down. The tornado moved north-northeast, crossing Old Ferry Rd, were several trees were uprooted. The tornado reached peak intensity as it crossed SC Highway 49 and moved along Phillip Church Rd, where a number of trees were uprooted and large limbs snapped. The tornado crossed Black Bottom Rd, where several trees were downed before it weakened as it crossed SC Highway 9. The tornado downed several large limbs as it crossed Bailey Town Rd before dissipating.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Carem	-	Two large trees were blown down along Lawson Rd in the Monarch Mills community.
November 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carem	-	Several trees were blown down between Union and the Chester County line.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Monarch	2.1 miles	12
South Hills	2.2 miles	12
New Hill	2.3 miles	12
Gregory (historical)	2.5 miles	12
Union	3.2 miles	12
Meador (historical)	3.3 miles	12
Sardis	3.9 miles	12
Santuc	5.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247159. 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.