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Pelham, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It lies in ZIP code area 29651. The Survey maps it on the Pelham quadrangle. It stands 778 feet above sea level.

Pelham within Spartanburg County

On record in Pelham

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Pelham between 1992 and 2019, burning about 276 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning5.6 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2009Debris and open burning3.9 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg 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 Pelham: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
H L Shelton DepositMicaOccurrence
Pelham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pelham in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2011HailPelham$250,000Several homes along Abners Creek Rd were severely damaged by wind-driven hail.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindPelham$10,000NWS employee reported trees blown down on Brockman McClimon Rd at Liberty Hill Rd in Greer. County comms reported other trees down on Gas Plant Rd and Bethlehem Church Rd in Moore and Roebuck, respectively. A tree was also down on a home on Betsy Ln in Woodruff.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindPelham$5,000Highway Patrol reported at least a dozen trees blown down across the central part of Spartanburg County. Some screen porches were also damaged at the Pelham Medical Center in Greer.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPelham-County comms reported many trees blown down across the western part of the county.
June 2011HailPelham-Quarter size hail was reported near the GSP airport.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPelham-A tree was blown down near mile marker 57 on I-85 and another was downed on Abner Creek Rd in the same area. Also, a gust of 51 mph was measured at GSP airport during this time.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPelham-Several large trees were blown down.
September 2002Flash FloodPelham-Overflowing streams caused flooding of roads near the Enoree River.
July 1999HailPelham-no account filed
April 1998Thunderstorm WindPelham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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
Fulton Acres3.2 miles14
Homewood Acres3.5 miles14
Maplewood4.2 miles14
Manning Acres4.8 miles14
Victorian Hills4.8 miles14
Victor Mills4.9 miles14
Chapel Estates5.0 miles14
Victor Heights5.3 miles14

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 PelhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14709646The 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 1250052. 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.