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Barnes Station, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Iva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29655. The Survey maps it on the Iva quadrangle.

Barnes Station within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Barnes Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 484 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 29 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning33
Arson/incendiarism29
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking10
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Barnes Station: 9 prospects, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Scott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Todd ProspectFeldspar, MicaProspect
Vandiver & Cooke Scott ProspectsMica, FeldsparProspect
Bell ProspectMicaProspect
Ben Martin MineMicaPast Producer
Fretwell South ProspectMicaProspect
Fretwell South ProspectMicaProspect
J M Skelton ProspectMicaProspect
Keown MineMicaProspect
McKee ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnes Station in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindBarnes Station-Highway dept reported trees blown down near the intersection of Highways 184 and 187.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBarnes Station-A large tree was blown down on Sam Turner Rd near highway 184. Highway Patrol reported another tree down nearby on highway 187, about 5 miles west of Iva.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBarnes Station-Trees were blown down along Barnes Station Rd.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBarnes Station-Several trees were blown down on Project Rd.

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Moffitsville2.6 miles14
Iva3.4 miles14
Starr8.2 miles14
Storeville (historical)8.7 miles12
Deans9.9 miles14
Holland Store11.4 miles15
Flat Rock11.5 miles14
Allendale12.5 miles15

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 Q122542003The 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 1244961. 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.