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Newry, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Seneca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29672. It stands on Cane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Seneca quadrangle. 199 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Newry within Oconee County

On record in Newry

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

Population over time

2 figures

Newry grew from 172 to 199 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010172
2020199+27 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Newry between 1992 and 2019, burning about 478 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Recreation and ceremony30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Newry: 8 prospects, 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, Garnet, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Unnamed Garnet ProspectGarnetProspect
Unnamed Talc ProspectTalc-SoapstoneProspect
Calhoun PlacerGoldPast Producer
Pickens ProspectGoldUnknownVein
Sloan PlacerGoldUnknownPlacer
Sloan ProspectGoldOccurrence
Amos L Honeycutt DepositMicaOccurrence
Head ProspectMicaProspect
J B Smith ProspectMicaProspect
John Dyer ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Oconee County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newry in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
May 2003Thunderstorm WindNewry$20,000A 130-year-old tree fell and destroyed a garage and the vehicle inside.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindNewry-Public reported a large tree blown down and blocking the intersection at Lawrence Bridge Rd and Alpine Dr. Additionally, a power pole was snapped along Highway 183 near the Pickens County line.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNewry-Fire dept reported numerous trees blown down in the area around Old Clemson Highway and Lawrence Bridge Rd.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindNewry-Ham radio operator reported trees blown down on Forest Dr at Creekside Dr.
May 2016HailNewry-Public reported 3/4 inch hail.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindNewry-EM reported multiple trees and power lines blown down in the Forest Dr area.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindNewry-FD reported multiple trees blown down and blocking the road around Doug Hollow Rd and Rochester Highway.
April 2011HailNewry-Hail up to the size of golf balls fell from near Six Mile to Norris and Liberty.
June 2011HailNewry-Nickel size hail was reported at Oconee Nuclear Station.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindNewry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oconee 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
Courtenay1.0 miles16
Corinth1.1 miles16
Enchanted Hills1.2 miles16
Keowee Shores1.3 miles16
Hanover Hills1.4 miles16
Cherokee Gardens1.4 miles16
Indian Hills1.4 miles16
Ridgewood1.5 miles16

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 NewryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11695539The 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 1231589. 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.