Blue Ridge, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Highland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29651. It stands on Stewart Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tigerville quadrangle.

Blue Ridge within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1907 USGS Saluda quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Tigerville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Tigerville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Hendersonville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Blue Ridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 436 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	2
Natural	1
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Blue Ridge: 7 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Clark-Tyger Sand Mine	Sand	Unknown	Sedimentary
L E Stringer Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Mills Herren Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Rester Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sandy Flat Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Metamorphic
Sandy Flats Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Tiger	Vermiculite	Unknown	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Tigerville Prospect	Zirconium	Occurrence
Briggs Prospect	Gold	Unknown	Vein
Briggs Prospect	Gold	Prospect

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lendaw	0.2 miles	17
Taho (historical)	1.1 miles	17
Pleasant Hill	1.8 miles	17
Skyland	2.0 miles	17
Mitchell (historical)	2.3 miles	17
O'Neal	2.7 miles	17
Jordan	2.8 miles	17
Mount View	2.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1220818. 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.