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Nesmith, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Nesmith census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29580. It stands on Headless Creek. The Survey maps it on the Indiantown quadrangle. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Nesmith within Williamsburg County

On record in Nesmith

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Black Mingo Baptist Church, SC Secondary Road 162, Nesmith, Williamsburg County, SC
Black Mingo Baptist Church, SC Secondary Road 162, Nesmith, Williamsburg County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

359 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 359 fires within 5 miles of Nesmith between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,952 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 85 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 burning145
Missing data/not specified/undetermined100
Arson/incendiarism85
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2009Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg 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 Nesmith: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Parsons Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Parsons Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nesmith in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
April 2006Thunderstorm WindNesmith$25,000Storm survey found several trees snapped and a pack house was blown off its blocks. Another house sustained wind and hail damage. Golfball size hail was reported.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNesmith$4,000Several trees were reportedly down along Sandhill Road.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindNesmith$3,000TREES DOWN ON CAR
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNesmith-A report came in of a tree down in roadway.
June 2007HailNesmith-Nickel size hail covered the ground.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindNesmith-Electric company reported numerous large trees down with downed power lines.
May 2001HailNesmith-Public reported quarter size hail.

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg 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
Cook1.9 miles8
Chandlers2.0 miles8
Henry2.0 miles8
Snow Junction2.3 miles8
Dorseytown3.6 miles8
Morrisville3.8 miles8
Rome4.0 miles8
Gordonville4.1 miles8

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 NesmithAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6997432The 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 1231585. 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.