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Delphia, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the McConnells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29745. The Survey maps it on the Tirzah quadrangle.

Delphia within York 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Delphia between 1992 and 2017, burning about 362 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning35
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
23 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in York County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Delphia: 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Barium-Barite. 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
Imc Custom Grinding/ York, S.C.Barium-BariteUnknown
Tate MineGoldUnknownVein
Project 317Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
York County MinesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in York County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delphia in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindDelphia$10,000Public reported several trees blown down, with one tree on a house just southeast of York.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindDelphia-Multiple trees were blown down at the intersection of Sandifer Rd and highway 321.
July 2009HailDelphia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in York 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
Forest Hills2.7 miles15
Wooded Valley2.9 miles15
Guthries3.2 miles15
Pineview3.2 miles15
Musical Heights3.3 miles15
York3.7 miles15
Sutton Spring (historical)4.3 miles15
Poplar Acres4.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247517. 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.