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Boiling Springs, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kline-Snelling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29812. The Survey maps it on the Snelling quadrangle.

Boiling Springs within Barnwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Boiling Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,434 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined52
Debris and open burning52
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Natural15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Natural8.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Boiling Springs: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unidentified Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Barnwell 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
Owens Crossroad2.2 miles16
Patterson Mill3.9 miles16
Kline4.7 miles16
Yenome5.6 miles16
Dunbarton (historical)7.1 miles17
Snelling7.3 miles16
Donora (historical)7.4 miles17
Hells Half Acre8.0 miles16

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 Q49346524The 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 1246933. 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.