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Arrowwood, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Chesnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29323. The Survey maps it on the Fingerville East quadrangle.

Arrowwood within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Arrowwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 519 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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 burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking8
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use17 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceWHOLE LOTTA LOVE
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceJUG FIRE
4 September 2010Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceCHOO CHOO FIRE
21 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServicePAINTER RD
2 September 2019Other causesunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceJACK MCKENNEY RD
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceGULLY
2 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Arrowwood: 5 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Iron, Kyanite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cliffside-Elkin Kyn Belt DepositKyaniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Cowpens Battlefield Bog-Iron MineIronUnknownBog Iron Limonite
Rutherford County Dredge and PSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dills Creek Cassiterite Occurrence E TribTinOccurrencePlacer
Goodes Creek Cassiterite Occurrences Se TribTinOccurrencePlacer
Lower East Trib Cassiterite Occurrence of Floyds CreekTinOccurrencePlacer
Lower Goodes Creek Cassiterite OccurrenceTinOccurrencePlacer

Every working 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
Chesnee1.8 miles15
Brooklyn2.4 miles15
Cooley Springs3.8 miles15
Mayo Mills5.7 miles14
Mayo5.9 miles14
Springdale Estates5.9 miles14
Mountain View6.0 miles13
Fingerville6.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1248094. 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.