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Clyde, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hartsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29550. The Survey maps it on the Lake Robinson quadrangle. It stands 233 feet above sea level.

Clyde within Darlington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

464 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 464 fires within 5 miles of Clyde between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,823 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 65 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
Debris and open burning172
Missing data/not specified/undetermined151
Arson/incendiarism65
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Equipment and vehicle use22
Natural14
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Arson/incendiarism10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Clyde: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barbour ProspectIron, ManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Darlington County

Storms near this place

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clyde in 19 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 9 injuries. 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
September 1999Tornado (F1)Clyde6 hurt, $240,000A tornado touched down at Clyde, just west of the HB Robinson nuclear power plant, and tracked across the Pine Ridge area. The storm continued east-northeast, north of Hartsville across mostly rural areas, to near the Darlington County Jetport. There was spotty damage along a 15 mile path - 11 mobile homes were destroyed and 15 more were damaged. One house had major damage. Six businesses were listed as destroyed. Six injured people were treated and released.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindClyde2 hurt, $10,000A large tree fell onto a car near Lake Robinson and injured the two occupants.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindClyde1 hurt, $10,000A tree was blown down on a camper. There was one injury.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindClyde$20,000A trailer was blown over on Easterling Landing Rd.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindClyde$3,000Trees were reported down along Ashland Road.
May 2020HailClyde$1,000Large hail and wind destroyed a patio canopy.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindClyde$1,000A large tree in roadway at the intersection of Ashland Road and West Old Camden Road.
April 2011HailClyde$500Hail up to the size of half dollars was reported.
April 2011HailClyde$500Hail to the size of quarters was reported.
April 2011HailClyde$500Hail up to the size of quarters covered the ground on West Bobo Newsom Highway.
May 2022HailClyde-Three quarter inch hail measured 1 NE Clyde in the Pine Ridge area.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindClyde-Powerlines and 4 trees down at intersection of Old Camden road and Ashland Rd.
May 2020HailClyde-Large hail was reported in the New Market Community.
May 2017FloodClyde-Some local street flooding in town.
October 2015Heavy RainClyde-A resident of the town of Clyde recorded a 24 hour rainfall amount of 5.6.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindClyde-A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 60 mph.
March 2008HailClyde-A trained spotter reported one-inch hail.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClyde-A tree was blown down on Ashland Road.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindClyde-A spotter estimated a 60 mph gust.

Every storm recorded in Darlington 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
Pine Ridge1.3 miles15
New Market2.5 miles15
Botany Woods2.7 miles14
Segars2.8 miles15
Kellytown3.3 miles14
Forest Hills3.3 miles14
McCoys Crossroads3.5 miles14
Forest Acres3.9 miles14

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 ClydeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16890484The 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 1221653. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.