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New Zion, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sardinia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29111. It stands on Trustless Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sardinia quadrangle. It stands 102 feet above sea level.

New Zion within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of New Zion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,992 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 90 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 burning156
Missing data/not specified/undetermined106
Arson/incendiarism90
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use14 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Zion in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 6 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Zion$8,000Dispatch reported trees and powerlines down on Walker Gamber Road near Laurel Drive.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-SC Department of Public Safety reported trees down at the intersection of Salem and Old Manning Roads. Time estimated by radar.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-SCDOT reported a tree down on Old Manning Road near Black River Road.
July 2021Tornado (EF0)New Zion-A National Weather Service Storm Survey confirmed a high-end EF0 tornado just south of New Zion, SC in Clarendon County. The tornado had a path length of 1.5 miles, width of about 40 yards, and peak winds of 85 mph. The tornado began in a field east of Old Manning Road and just south of Knowlton Road, then moved northwest along Old Manning Road, snapping numerous trees along its path and knocking down many large branches. The tornado then moved across the intersection of Old Manning Road and Newman Branch Road where it caused the most extensive damage. In this area, an empty trailer was overturned and moved about 20 yards. A warehouse building had an exterior wood and cinder block wall collapse, likely due to an uplift of the roof. A large grain auger was knocked over, metal at the top of a silo was twisted, and a metal and wood equipment shelter was destroyed. A couple of nearby buildings also had minor roof damage. The tornado then crossed into a corn field, where it knocked down the crops in a convergent wind pattern. The tornado then appeared to weaken as it tracked northwest just to the west of Old Manning Road, causing mostly minor tree damage before dissipating near Walker Gamble Road.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-Clarendon Co Sheriff reported trees down across Walker Gamble Rd near Turbeville.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-Power lines down on Walker Gamble Rd. Tree limbs down throughout the area.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-Sheriff reported trees down between hwys 301 and 378.

Every storm recorded in Clarendon 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
Beards Crossroads1.3 miles16
Seloc2.8 miles16
Sardinia2.9 miles16
Turbeville3.3 miles16
Union Crossroads3.7 miles8
Gable4.4 miles16
Wilson Crossroads5.8 miles16
Barrineau Crossroads6.7 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 New ZionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988782The 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 1225029. 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.