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Meriwether, South Carolina

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Parksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29821. The Survey maps it on the Clarks Hill quadrangle.

Meriwether within McCormick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Meriwether between 1992 and 2020, burning about 692 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined55
Debris and open burning30
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-COLUMBIA-004
3 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Meriwether: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, Chromium. 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
The Dixie Mountain Serpentine DepMagnesite, ChromiumPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in McCormick County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meriwether in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 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
February 2009LightningMeriwether$200,000Lightning struck a home in the Mt. Vintage subdivision in Merriwether causing major damage to a 2 story brick home.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMeriwether$5,000WAGT TV reported trees down in Meriwether.
February 2007Tornado (EF1)Meriwether$4,000An EF1 tornado started in Meriweather and intermittently touched down along a northeast track to 6 miles SSW of Edgefield. Minor damage was done to two homes with trees down along its path.
July 2012HailMeriwether-The public reported quarter size hail near Meriwether.
May 2008HailMeriwether-Sheriff reported nickel size hail.
February 2005HailMeriwether-Post Office reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Meriwether-Sheriff reported trees down with minor damage to some homes.

Every storm recorded in McCormick 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
Clarks Hill1.4 miles24
Woodlawn2.4 miles24
Modoc6.1 miles24
Parksville9.7 miles16
Bethany (historical)13.6 miles16
Parks Mill14.3 miles16
Whitetown14.4 miles16
Plum Branch14.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231538. 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.