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Caesars Head, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Slater-Marietta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29635. It stands on Caesars Head Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle.

Caesars Head within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Caesars Head between 1992 and 2020, burning about 630 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
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
23 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceMINE MOUNTAIN TRAIL
24 August 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1999Natural15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2012Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Caesars Head: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Molybdenum. 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
Caesar's Head MineMicaPast Producer
J H Picklesimer ProspectMolybdenumProspect

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caesars Head in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Thunderstorm WindCaesars Head-Nws employee reported numerous trees blown down along and near Highway 276 just below Caesars Head State Park.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCaesars Head-Multiple trees were blown down around Caesar's Head State Park.
February 2011HailCaesars Head-Hail ranged from quarter size near Caesars Head State Park to golf ball size near the highway 11/highway 276 split.
May 2010HailCaesars Head-Hail up to the size of quarters was reported at Caesar's Head State Park.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCaesars Head-Several large tree limbs were blown down at Caesars Head State Park.
May 1996HailCaesars Head-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mountain Lake Colony2.3 miles15
Lakemont2.8 miles21
Riverview4.4 miles15
River Falls4.5 miles15
Cleveland5.6 miles15
Mayfield (historical)6.6 miles15
Gap Creek7.7 miles28
Slater8.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231116. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.