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Silver, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It lies in ZIP code area 29102. It stands on Knife Branch. The Survey maps it on the Paxville quadrangle.

Silver within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of Silver between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,775 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 47 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 burning153
Missing data/not specified/undetermined140
Arson/incendiarism47
Equipment and vehicle use24
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
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
8 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism35 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Smoking4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSilver-SCDOT reported a tree down across Frank Rhames Road near Panola.
May 2009HailSilver-Public reported 3/4 inch hail on hwy 15.

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
Panola3.2 miles14
Paxville4.2 miles14
Summerton4.8 miles13
Belser Crossroads4.9 miles15
Halleytown5.0 miles14
Juneville6.9 miles16
Davis Station7.2 miles13
Saint Paul7.2 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q13415476The 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 1226615. 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.