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Arkwright, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Spartanburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29306. It stands on Butterfly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spartanburg quadrangle.

Arkwright within Spartanburg County

On record in Arkwright

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Arkwright between 1992 and 2019, burning about 345 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined59
Debris and open burning24
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Natural1
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
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Arkwright: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Titanium, 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
Fairforest Creek Sand MineSandUnknownSedimentary
North SpartanburgTitanium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arkwright in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018Thunderstorm WindArkwright$10,000Media and county comms reported multiple trees with a few power lines down across the southern half of Spartanburg County, with a tree down on a house in south Spartanburg and other trees down in the Pauline and Glenn Springs area. Other trees were down closer to Woodruff.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindArkwright-A tree was blown down on a home on Pennwood Dr.
November 2009Flash FloodArkwright-Irwin Ave was closed at South Church St due to flooding along Beaverdam Creek.

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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
Branyon Heights0.5 miles18
Phyllis Goins Court0.6 miles18
Sherwood Acres0.9 miles18
South Meadows Farms0.9 miles18
Kenwood1.0 miles18
Hartwell Courts1.0 miles18
Washington Heights1.1 miles18
Park Hills1.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231011. 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.