Bay Shores, South Carolina

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.

• 1888 USGS Pickens quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Pickens quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1951 USGS Clemson quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Bay Shores between 1992 and 2019, burning about 499 acres in total. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Stone Haven
• Cherokee Gardens
• Corinth
• Hanover Hills
• Newry
• Courtenay

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Bay Shores: 9 prospects, 3 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, Garnet. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Oconee County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1242914. 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.