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Thor, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pelion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29123. It stands on Crawford Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wagener quadrangle.

Thor within Lexington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

304 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of Thor between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,624 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined118
Debris and open burning94
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Arson/incendiarism22
Natural17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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 2018Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2018Natural4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2005Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thor in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindThor-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported trees down on Highway 302 near the Edisto River Bridge.

Every storm recorded in Lexington 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
Pelion3.7 miles13
Testo6.2 miles13
Fairview Crossroads6.6 miles12
Macedon7.7 miles13
Swansea8.7 miles13
Sharpes Hill9.1 miles13
Rayflin9.3 miles12
Steedman10.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231861. 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.