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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.

Zion within Marion County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

185 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined64
Debris and open burning49
Arson/incendiarism39
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural10
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
27 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2001Natural4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2017Thunderstorm WindZion$1,000A tree was reported down across Dew Rd.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindZion-Several trees down near the intersection of Methodist Church Road and Dew Road. The largest trees were up to eight inches in diameter.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Smithboro1.1 miles6
Temperance Hill3.8 miles7
Spring Branch4.2 miles8
North Mullins4.4 miles11
Mullins5.0 miles11
Turner Place5.8 miles8
Country Club Estates6.2 miles11
Marion7.1 miles8

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.