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Maybinton, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Whitmire census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29178. The Survey maps it on the Blair quadrangle.

Maybinton 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Maybinton between 1992 and 2018, burning about 270 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsCOLLINS CREEK
6 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth 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
4 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2011Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newberry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maybinton in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 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 2011Thunderstorm WindMaybinton$2,000SCEMD reported several trees down on Maybinton Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMaybinton-Public report via social media of multiple limbs and trees down in the Maybinton Community.

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)2.6 miles15
Glymphville4.9 miles15
Browns Crossroads6.4 miles13
Reuben (historical)6.8 miles14
Keitts Crossroads7.7 miles13
Cravenhill (historical)7.9 miles14
Whitmire8.0 miles12
Walton (historical)8.4 miles14

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 Q122562321The 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 1231524. 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.