Smithboro, South Carolina

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Mullins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29574. It stands on The Gulley. The Survey maps it on the Fork quadrangle.

Smithboro within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Fork quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Smithboro between 1992 and 2019, burning about 792 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 45 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/undetermined	61
Arson/incendiarism	45
Debris and open burning	42
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	10
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
25 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smithboro in 1 storm report in 1998: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 1998	Hail	Smithboro	-	REPORTED BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Every storm recorded in Marion 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Zion	1.1 miles	6
Temperance Hill	4.2 miles	7
North Mullins	4.4 miles	11
Spring Branch	5.1 miles	8
Mullins	5.2 miles	11
Turner Place	6.9 miles	8
Country Club Estates	7.2 miles	11
Marion	8.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1226701. 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.