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Southeast Newberry, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Newberry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29108. The Survey maps it on the Newberry East quadrangle.

Southeast Newberry within Newberry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Southeast Newberry between 1992 and 2020, burning about 369 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
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 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2016Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newberry 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 Southeast Newberry: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Granite, Stone, Dimension. 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
Lester ProspectGoldProspect
Unnamed Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous

Every working recorded in Newberry County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southeast Newberry in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 7 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSoutheast Newberry$4,000Highway Patrol reported trees down on Hwy 395.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindSoutheast Newberry$1,000Sheriff reported a couple of trees down between Newberry and Prosperity near Colony Church Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindSoutheast Newberry-Trees and power lines were downed along Clara Brown Rd.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindSoutheast Newberry-Trees down on Fire Tower Rd at Clara Brown Rd.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSoutheast Newberry-A severe thunderstorm downburst continued south of Newberry, across southern Newberry Co SC, downing numerous trees from west of Prosperity, southeast across SR 391, and southeast to near the shore of Lake Murray.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSoutheast Newberry-Trees down near Clara Brown Rd and Hwy 395.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindSoutheast Newberry-Trees down on Interstate 26 east of Newberry.

Every storm recorded in Newberry 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
Boyd1.2 miles12
Union2.5 miles13
Newberry2.9 miles13
Bachman Chapel3.4 miles13
Prosperity3.5 miles12
Taylors Crossroads4.1 miles14
Helena4.2 miles13
Devils Cross Roads4.6 miles13

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 Q122550307The 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 1228833. 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.