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Manville, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bishopville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29010. It stands on Beaverdam Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bishopville West quadrangle.

Manville within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Manville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,077 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 43 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 burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined79
Arson/incendiarism43
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manville in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindManville$2,000Sheriff reported trees down on Elmore road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindManville$2,000Couple of trees down at the public golf course.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindManville-Trees were downed along I-20 near the 114 mile marker.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindManville-Dispatch reported a tree down on a car in Spring Hill road near Bishopville. There were no injuries.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindManville-SC Highway Patrol reported trees down along the westbound lane of I-20 near mile marker 112.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindManville-Trees down along Horse Pen Rd.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindManville-Trees down along Browntown Rd.
September 2004Tornado (F1)Manville-A strong F1 tornado took down huge trees and powerlines, and also did moderate damage to several homes and a cotton gin mill.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Hammetts Crossroads0.5 miles16
Spur1.0 miles16
McCutchen (historical)1.8 miles16
Rose Hill2.1 miles16
Ashwood3.2 miles16
Browntown3.5 miles16
McCabe (historical)3.6 miles16
McCutchens Crossroads3.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1246526. 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.