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Eulonia, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Centenary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29546. The Survey maps it on the Gresham quadrangle.

Eulonia within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Eulonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 597 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 25 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
6 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2010Natural1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 2009Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eulonia in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEulonia$1,000A tree was reportedly down near the intersection of Treadway Road and Highway 9. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEulonia$1,000A tree was reported down across Highway 41.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEulonia-A tree was blown down on SC-41, approximately 5 NE of Gresham.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Centenary3.4 miles8
Friendship3.5 miles7
Gresham4.2 miles8
Davis Landing4.9 miles8
Catfish Landing5.4 miles8
Brittons Neck5.6 miles8
Tabernacle5.7 miles7
Daviston6.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227895. 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.