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Boiling Springs, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Boiling Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29316. The Survey maps it on the Valley Falls quadrangle. 10,405 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Boiling Springs within Spartanburg County

Population over time

2 figures

Boiling Springs grew from 8,219 to 10,405 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20108,219
202010,405+2,186 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Boiling Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 486 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined96
Debris and open burning38
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking2
Natural2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Boiling Springs: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold. 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
Mcbee PlacerGoldPast Producer1844
Avery ProspectIronProspect
Senia ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Spartanburg 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
Rainbow Park0.8 miles13
Clearview Heights0.9 miles13
Panorama Estates0.9 miles13
Spring Hills1.0 miles13
Mason Estates1.2 miles13
Laurelwood1.4 miles13
Twin Brooks1.5 miles15
Northgate1.5 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.

Wikipedia article on Boiling SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2479829The 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 1220877. 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.