Zion, South Carolina
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Mullins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29574. The Survey maps it on the Fork quadrangle.
On record in Zion
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
- Dew Barnlisted 1984
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fork quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
185 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Zion between 1992 and 2019, burning about 718 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 39 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/undetermined | 64 |
| Debris and open burning | 49 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 August 2001 | Natural | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zion in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Zion | $1,000 | A tree was reported down across Dew Rd. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Zion | - | Several trees down near the intersection of Methodist Church Road and Dew Road. The largest trees were up to eight inches in diameter. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smithboro | 1.1 miles | 6 | |
| Temperance Hill | 3.8 miles | 7 | |
| Spring Branch | 4.2 miles | 8 | |
| North Mullins | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Mullins | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Turner Place | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Country Club Estates | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Marion | 7.1 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227744. 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.



