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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Summerton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Paxville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
378 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 153 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 140 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 47 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1999 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver | - | SCDOT reported a tree down across Frank Rhames Road near Panola. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Silver | - | Public reported 3/4 inch hail on hwy 15. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panola | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Paxville | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Summerton | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Belser Crossroads | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Halleytown | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Juneville | 6.9 miles | 16 | |
| Davis Station | 7.2 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Paul | 7.2 miles | 15 |
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 Q13415476 | The 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.








