Booker Washington Heights, South Carolina

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Colonial Village Apartmentslisted 2021 · 0.6 miles away

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.

• 1904 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1986 USGS Newberry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Booker Washington Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 513 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Barhamville Estates
• Jaggers Terrace
• Saxton Homes
• Barony
• Belleview
• Butchertown (historical)

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Booker Washington Heights: 9 past producers, 6 producers, 2 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Richland County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1248958. 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.