Prosperity Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Prosperity Cemetery is located on McNeary Street on the south side of Prosperity, South Carolina, United States. The cemetery is about 3 acres (1.2 ha) in size, with more than 1,000 marked graves dating back to its founding in 1802.”
Wikipedia article Prosperity Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Newberry County · listed in 2014 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. McNeary St., Prosperity, 29127
When was it listed? January 2014
Category. site
Census division. Prosperity
National Register reference number. 13001097 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Prosperity Cemetery between 1992 and 2019, burning about 266 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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	45
Debris and open burning	27
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	2

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
23 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Newberry County

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prosperity, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
April 2006	Tornado (F0)	Prosperity	$70,000	A supercell produced an F0 tornado that fell trees on a home severely damaging it. The twister also took down other trees along its path, some across railroad tracks and others across hwy 202 near I-20.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	$35,000	Sheriff reported numerous trees and powerlines down in Prosperity. One tree fell on a car and another on a home causing significant damage.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	$5,000	Sheriff reported a shed destroyed and large limbs on the highway.
November 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	$4,000	Public reported trees and powerlines down in Prosperity.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	$3,000	Sheriff reported trees dwon on McNeary St. near Arbor Knoll.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	$1,000	EM reported a tree down on powerlines in Prosperity.
January 1995	Tornado (F0)	Prosperity	$1,000	Tornado touched down in wooded area near Highways 202/434.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Prosperity	-	Newberry County EM reported secondary road closures in the town of Prosperity due to flash flooding.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	-	Newberry County Dispatch reported trees down on Macedonia Church Road near Prosperity. Time estimated by radar.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	-	Newberry dispatch reported a tree down on a powerline on Eureka street.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	-	Numerous trees and power lines were downed in the town of Prosperity and vicinity, and railroad crossing arms were damaged.
April 2009	Hail	Prosperity	-	SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 2009	Hail	Prosperity	-	Riverwinds Landing Marina reported quater size hail.
March 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Prosperity	-	Storm survey found many trees down along a path from just southeast of Prosperity to a couple of miles northeast of Prosperity.
May 2008	Hail	Prosperity	-	SKYWARN HAM radio spotter reported quarter size hail south of Prosperty near the Newberry county line.
March 2008	Hail	Prosperity	-	Sheriff reported quarter size hail.
June 2007	Hail	Prosperity	-	Roberts Express Mart reported penny size hail.
July 2007	Hail	Prosperity	-	Penny size hail was reported by Lake Murray Rescue.
April 2006	Hail	Prosperity	-	Post Office personnel reported one inch hail
April 2006	Hail	Prosperity	-	SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	-	Sheriff reported trees down in Prosperity.
November 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	-	SKYWARN spotter reported a couple of trees down on St. Luke road just west of Prosperity.
April 2003	Flash Flood	Prosperity	-	Small streams spilled over their banks flooding country roads and low lying areas in and around Prosperity.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	-	Sheriff reported several trees down in Prosperity.
May 2002	Hail	Prosperity	-	Sheriff reported dime size hail.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	-	Sheriff reported large limbs on powerlines.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	-	Sheriff reported trees down.
June 1998	Hail	Prosperity	-	COOP observer reported nickel size hail at Dreher Is. State Park.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	-	Several trees were knocked down.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	-	Limbs and large tree blown down.
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Prosperity	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newberry 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Howard Junior High School	1.3 miles	2006
Jacob Bedenbaugh House	4.0 miles	2011
Timberhouse	5.9 miles	1980
Hannah Rosenwald School	6.1 miles	2009
Cousins House	6.2 miles	1980
George Mower House	6.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13001097 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newberry County	All 37 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.
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.