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Glymphville, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pomaria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29126. The Survey maps it on the Blair quadrangle.

Glymphville within Newberry 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Glymphville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 285 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
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
29 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.4 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsFS400
26 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsMT. PLEASANT
19 August 2007Debris and open burning1.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newberry 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 Glymphville: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Granite, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Blair QuarryGraniteUnknownIgneous
Blair QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1908
Blair QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dickert QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast Producer1908

Every working recorded in Newberry County

Storms near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glymphville in 13 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 WindGlymphville$2,000Highway Patrol reported trees down near the intersection of Mt. Pleasant Road and Ringer Road.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindGlymphville$2,000Newberry Electric reported a few trees, large limbs, and lines down west of Blair on Old Blair road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGlymphville$1,000County Emergency Manager reported a power line down along Mt. Pleasant Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGlymphville-Newberry County dispatch reports trees down at Mt. Pleasant Road and Glymphville Road. Time estimated by radar.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGlymphville-Newberry County EM reported a tree down along Broad River Road. Time estimated based on radar.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindGlymphville-SC Department of Public Safety reported trees down on Highway 34 near the intersection of Broad River Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGlymphville-Newberry County dispatch reported a tree down on Mt. Pleasant Rd at Ringer Dr north of Pomaria.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGlymphville-SC Hwy Patrol reported trees down at the intersection of SC Hwy 34 and Broad River Rd. Time estimated.
March 2016HailGlymphville-Public reported nickel size hail near the intersection of Highway 34 and Broad River Road.
April 2013HailGlymphville-Public reported quarter size hail fell along Hwy 34 and Broad River Road.
July 2012HailGlymphville-Public reported dime size hail in the Glymphville area.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGlymphville-Sheriff dispatch reported several large limbs down on Maybinton road and Gilliam Spring road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGlymphville-Trees down on SC HIGHWAY 34...2 miles west of teh Fairfield County line.

Every storm recorded in Newberry 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
Gilliam Spring (historical)2.7 miles15
Cravenhill (historical)3.1 miles14
Walton (historical)3.6 miles14
Reuben (historical)4.0 miles14
Maybinton4.9 miles15
Hayne (historical)5.7 miles14
Sondleys (historical)5.9 miles14
Keitts Crossroads5.9 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122570886The 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 1231326. 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.