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Suber, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It lies in ZIP code area 29650. It stands on Cane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Taylors quadrangle.

Suber within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Suber between 1992 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism3
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
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth 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 Greenville 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 Suber: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Barnett & Simmons DepositsMicaOccurrence
H L Shelton DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Suber in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 2 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSuber-Part of the roof was peeled off of a bulding at the intersection of Suber Rd and Wade Hampton Bvd.
July 2009HailSuber-Hail was reported on Hood Rd to the southwest of Greer.
July 2008HailSuber-Hail fell near the intersection of Suber Rd and Hammett Bridge Rd.

Every storm recorded in Greenville 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
King Acres0.5 miles11
Chick Springs0.6 miles11
Laurel Hills0.7 miles11
Kings (historical)0.9 miles11
Groveland Dell0.9 miles11
Fairview1.1 miles11
Pinewood Estates1.2 miles11
Burgiss Hills1.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1232107. 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.