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Woodside, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29611. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle.

Woodside within Greenville County

On record in Woodside

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Woodside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 446 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth 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

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Woodside: 3 producers, 2 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, Iron. 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
Edgcomb Steel--Greenville, S.C.Iron, AluminumProducer
Saluda Lake MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Greenville MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomas Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
W.F. Thomas Sand CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Boling MineMicaPast Producer
C H Ellis ProspectMicaProspect
G F Fuller DepositMicaOccurrence
R S Berry ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodside in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2015Thunderstorm WindWoodside$100,000Newspaper reported multiple trees blown down throughout the city of Greenville. One tree fell on a home on Webster Ave, causing significant damage. Another tree fell across I-385 near Stone Ave, blocking traffic for some time. A wind gust of 59 mph (51 knots) was also measured by the ASOS at the Greenville Downtown airport.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWoodside-Sheriffs dispatch reported multiple trees blown down north and west of Greenville.
April 2020HailWoodside-Public reported (via Social Media) quarter size hail in the North Main neighborhood. NWS employee reported up to ping pong ball size hail near Taylors.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWoodside-County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down along Wade Hampton Bvd.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWoodside-Public reported multiple trees and power lines blown down, mainly on the west and south side of the city of Greenville.
March 2012HailWoodside-Hail up to quarter size fell along B Street in Greenville.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWoodside-Several trees were blown down near downtown Greenville, concentrated in the area around Main St and Croft St. One tree clipped a house and another tree fell on unoccupied vehicles.

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
Poinsett0.4 miles14
City View0.5 miles14
Brandon0.6 miles14
Westville0.7 miles14
Mansfield Park0.7 miles14
West Greenville0.8 miles14
Mountain View Homes0.8 miles14
Monaghan0.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231939. 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.