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Ascaga Heights, South Carolina

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the North Augusta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29841. It stands on Franklin Branch. The Survey maps it on the North Augusta quadrangle.

Ascaga Heights within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

516 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 516 fires within 5 miles of Ascaga Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,053 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 71 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/undetermined183
Debris and open burning124
Misuse of fire by a minor79
Arson/incendiarism71
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Other causes8
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking6
Fireworks2

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 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Ascaga Heights: 11 past producers, 6 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Titanium, Zirconium, REE, Thorium. 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
Graniteville MineKaolinProducer
Horse CreekTitanium, Zirconium, REE, ThoriumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Unidentified Mine(Horse Creek Mine)Zirconium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, TitaniumPast ProducerSedimentary Kaolin
Barden Kaolin MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Graniteville PlantClayProducer
Permenter Kaolin MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary Kaolin
Permenter Mine NorthClayPast Producer
Permenter Mine SouthClayPast Producer
Unidentified MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary Kaolin
Unidentified MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary Kaolin

Every working recorded in Aiken 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
Country Place1.1 miles20
Sandlewood1.2 miles20
Big Cone Ridge1.2 miles20
Laurel Lakes1.3 miles20
Barclay Estates1.4 miles20
Rainbow Falls2.0 miles19
Pinewood Plantation2.3 miles20
Bonnie Glen2.4 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122556264The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236214. 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.