Syracuse, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lake Swamp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29532. The Survey maps it on the Timmonsville quadrangle.

Syracuse within Darlington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1940 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1945 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Timmonsville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

315 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Syracuse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,129 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 37 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	154
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	89
Arson/incendiarism	37
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2011	Debris and open burning	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2009	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Storms near this place

10 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Syracuse in 10 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$4,000	Trees and power lines were reported down on Lamar Highway.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$3,000	One large tree was reported down on a house along South Center Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$1,000	A tree was reported down on S Center Rd. near the intersection with Country Manor Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$1,000	A tree was reported down on S Center Rd. near the intersection with Lake Swamp Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$1,000	A tree was reported down near the intersection of Old Lamar Highway and Hoffmeyer Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Syracuse	$1,000	A tree was reported down at the intersection of Lawson Grove Road and Philadelphia Street.
June 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Syracuse	-	The tornado formed in a wooded area west of Lawson Grove Rd, then caused tree damage as it crossed Lawson Grove Rd. The tornado continued toward the southeast and flipped a large agricultural irrigation system in a corn field along Joja Rd. Next, the tornado crossed Philadelphia St. and caused damage to trees before causing minor flashing and roof shingle damage at the Philadelphia Methodist Church. It also destroyed an outdoor storage building and knocked down a few granite headstones in the adjacent graveyard. The tornado continued toward the southeast across fields and a forest south of Philadelphia St. Finally, the tornado weakened as it moved across S Center Rd where it ripped a metal roof off a single wide mobile home and caused minor roof damage to a home on the east side of S Center Rd as it lifted.
July 2013	Flood	Syracuse	-	Flooding was reported at the intersection of South Center Rd and Lamar Hwy.
May 2013	Hail	Syracuse	-	Penny size hail was reported at a residence along South Center Road.
April 2012	Hail	Syracuse	-	Hail to the size of pennies was reported along Lamar Highway.

Every storm recorded in Darlington 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
Jackson Crossroads	0.5 miles	10
Philadelphia (historical)	1.0 miles	10
Dubose Crossroads	1.9 miles	7
Jernigan Crossroads	2.1 miles	10
Iseman Crossroads	2.7 miles	7
Yarborough Crossroads	3.0 miles	14
Alexander Crossroads	3.1 miles	10
Wallace Crossroads	3.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227010. 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.