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Belle Terre Acres, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Piedmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29673. The Survey maps it on the Pelzer quadrangle.

Belle Terre Acres within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Belle Terre Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 471 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined64
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism26
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Natural2
Other causes2

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
6 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2009Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Belle Terre Acres: 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand. 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
Placer Prospect 9-PIron, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
River Road PlantSandProducerSedimentary
Vulcan Materials Co. S. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Willimon MineMica, KaolinPast Producer
Piedmont DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Saluda River PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Boling MineMicaPast ProducerPegmatite
R S Berry ProspectMicaProspect
W F Holloway & J J Brown ProspectsMicaProspect
Will Cleveland ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Greenville 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
Chesterfield Estates0.9 miles10
Golden Grove1.6 miles10
Moonville1.6 miles10
Canterbury2.5 miles10
Idlewild2.9 miles10
Park Lane Terrace3.0 miles14
Pecan Terrace3.1 miles14
Rockvale3.2 miles14

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 Q122572933The 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 1245067. 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.