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Black Horse Run, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Van Wyck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29707. The Survey maps it on the Catawba NE quadrangle.

Black Horse Run within Lancaster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Black Horse Run between 1992 and 2019, burning about 109 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceSTRAWBERRY FIELD
17 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceJOE KERR RD
14 September 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceCRANE ROAD
10 September 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Black Horse Run: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Clay, Copper. 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
Hagin MineGold, CopperPast Producer1856
Hagin MineGold, CopperPast Producer
Miller MineClayProducerMetamorphic
Old Shale PitClayUnknownMetamorphic
Shale Pit Number 2ClayUnknownMetamorphic
Cureton MineGoldPast Producer
Izell MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lancaster 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
Pleasant Valley0.5 miles23
Colonial Village1.1 miles23
Barberville2.8 miles26
Belair3.2 miles15
Camp Cox3.3 miles26
Hancock6.6 miles15
Curetons (historical)9.5 miles13
Van Wyck9.7 miles13

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 Q122549899The 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 1241602. 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.