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Camp Cox, South Carolina

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Van Wyck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29707. The Survey maps it on the Fort Mill quadrangle.

Camp Cox within Lancaster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 26 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Camp Cox between 1992 and 2017, burning about 128 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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/undetermined38
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking10
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceHAY FIELD
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Camp Cox: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Arrowood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSurface
Pineville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerMetamorphic
Pinewood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownIntrusive

Every working recorded in Lancaster 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
Barberville0.7 miles26
Colonial Village2.3 miles23
Pleasant Valley2.9 miles23
Black Horse Run3.3 miles15
Belair5.9 miles15
Hancock9.6 miles15
Van Wyck12.3 miles13
Curetons (historical)12.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122556628The 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 1231125. 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.