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Photograph of Zubly Cemetery
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Zubly Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Zubly Cemetery near Beech Island, South Carolina, which is a small community in Aiken County, South Carolina was established around 1790 by Swiss settlers of the nearby New Windsor Township. It illustrates the vernacular burial customs of the period.”

Wikipedia article Zubly Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Aiken County · listed in 2002 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Forrest Dr., Beech Island, 29831
  • When was it listed? January 2002
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Beech Island
  • National Register reference number. 01001548 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Zubly Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 644 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 12 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 burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural6
Other causes4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Zubly Cemetery: 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium, REE. 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
Aiken County DepositREE, Zirconium, TitaniumPast Producer1879, 1955
Hollow CreekThorium, Titanium, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Town CreekThorium, Titanium, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Clearwater MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Kellos PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Merry Companies MineClayProducer
Merry Pit 4ClayProducer
Richmond County MineClayPast Producer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beech Island, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 1996: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBeech Island$1,000Trees blown down from wind on Silver Bluff Road near Beech Island.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindBeech Island-no account filed
March 1996HailBeech Island-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aiken County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Redcliffe1.3 miles1973
Cedars, The1.9 miles1993
Oakland Plantation4.7 miles2011
Rosemary Hall7.5 miles1975
Lookaway Hall7.6 miles1992
Georgia Avenue-Butler Avenue Historic District7.8 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01001548 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Aiken CountyAll 43 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.