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Parler, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Elloree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29142. The Survey maps it on the Felderville quadrangle.

Parler within Orangeburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

480 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 480 fires within 5 miles of Parler between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,975 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 53 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 burning184
Missing data/not specified/undetermined155
Arson/incendiarism53
Smoking35
Equipment and vehicle use22
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Natural7
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2005Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parler in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
October 2015Flash FloodParler$100,000SCHP reported road flooding with road closure at US HWY 301 and SC 267.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindParler$3,000Sheriff reported a couple of trees down on Harvard Lane between Santee River Road and Hwy 6.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindParler-SC Dept of public Safety reported a tree down blocking the roadway on Tee Vee Rd.
June 2021HailParler-The same severe thunderstorm that produced widespread wind damage also produced golf ball sized hail near Lake Marion High School near Santee, SC. An NWS storm survey team found significant hail damage to the high school including damage to the air conditioning units and windows.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindParler-Tree in roadway on Tee Vee Rd. Time estimated.

Every storm recorded in Orangeburg 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
Partersville1.3 miles13
Santee1.8 miles17
Felderville2.7 miles18
Milligans3.8 miles17
Elloree4.2 miles13
Dantzler5.1 miles18
Vance6.2 miles17
Oaks Crossroads6.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231635. 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.