Guthries, 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 29726. The Survey maps it on the Tirzah quadrangle.

Guthries 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Rock Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Tirzah quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Guthries between 1992 and 2016, burning about 246 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/undetermined	45
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in York County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guthries in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2016: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Guthries	-	Public reported multiple large tree limbs blown down on Highway 321 north of McConnells.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Guthries	-	Multiple trees were blown down on Gordon Rd near highway 324.
May 2010	Hail	Guthries	-	Penny size hail was reported near the Bethesda community.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
McConnells	2.3 miles	15
Brattonsville	2.9 miles	15
Delphia	3.2 miles	15
Forest Hills	5.8 miles	15
Wooded Valley	6.0 miles	15
Musical Heights	6.2 miles	15
Pineview	6.3 miles	15
Red Oaks	6.3 miles	16

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 Q122545757

The 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 1245871. 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.