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Kinards, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 29355. The Survey maps it on the Joanna quadrangle. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Kinards within Newberry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Kinards between 1992 and 2020, burning about 325 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
13 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2020Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National Forestsnot named
28 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2011Natural100 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsGEORGE BRANCH
3 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kinards: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Eastern White-rock Phosphate DepositPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast ProducerChemical Sediment, Marine
Joanna QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Newberry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinards in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 2 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindKinards$2,000Newberry Electric COOP reported powerlines down with outages in the Kinards area.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindKinards-SCHP reported tree in roadway on Bush River Rd near Hwy 560 near the Laurens Co line SW of Kinards. Time estimated.

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
Gary3.1 miles13
Bush River4.1 miles13
Jalapa5.5 miles13
Brickhouse Crossroads6.4 miles13
Cromer Crossroads7.1 miles13
Longshore7.5 miles13
Smyrna8.2 miles13
Beth Eden8.4 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.

Wikipedia article on KinardsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14709524The 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 1229885. 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.