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Minter, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29609. The Survey maps it on the Taylors quadrangle.

Minter within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Minter between 1992 and 2018, burning about 199 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning13
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville 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 Minter: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Mica. 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
Barnett & Simmons DepositsMicaOccurrence
Edgcomb Steel--Greenville, S.C.Iron, AluminumProducer

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minter in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 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
June 2025HailMinter-Public reported up to quarter size hail along Hudson St in Taylors.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMinter-Multiple sources reported numerous trees blown down along with some power lines from the Paris Mountain area across Taylors. Power lines fell on a storage building.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMinter-Public reported trees blown down resulting in power outages.
March 2016HailMinter-NWS employees and the public observed hail ranging from the size of quarters to golf balls from near the Paris Mountain area to the GSP Airport.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMinter-Trees were blown down on State Park Rd at Jennfier Ct, extending east to the Taylors area.
March 2012HailMinter-Dime to nickel size hail fell from the Paris Mountain area, across Taylors and to the west side of the GSP Airport.
August 2008HailMinter-Hail reported on Wade Hampton Blvd.
June 2011HailMinter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenville 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
Hampton Heights0.3 miles11
Shady Creek0.6 miles11
Piney Ridge0.7 miles11
Wade Hampton Gardens0.8 miles11
Wade Hampton0.9 miles11
Willow Heights0.9 miles11
Piedmont Park0.9 miles11
Paris (historical)1.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1245239. 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.