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Barfield Mill, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mount Pisgah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29067. It stands on Gates Ford Branch. The Survey maps it on the Westville quadrangle.

Barfield Mill within Kershaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Barfield Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 915 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined100
Debris and open burning70
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural13
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kershaw 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 Barfield Mill: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Gold. 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
Carolina Mahogany QuarryGranitePast Producer
Johnson MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kershaw 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
Kirkley Mill1.3 miles19
Abney Crossroads1.9 miles14
Gaston Mill3.5 miles19
Westville4.1 miles19
Lockhart Oil Field4.2 miles19
Jordan Mill5.4 miles19
Flat Rock5.6 miles19
Clyburn5.8 miles19

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 Q122567166The 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 1231026. 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.