Cantey, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Camden Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29020. It lies near Eagles Nest. The Survey maps it on the Rabon Crossroads quadrangle.

Cantey within Kershaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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.

1935 USGS Camden quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Camden quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Camden quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1942 USGS Camden quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Camden quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Camden South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Rabon Crossroads quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Cantey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,018 acres in total. 9 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
Debris and open burning	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	9
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kershaw 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 Cantey: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Lamar Mine	Gold	Unknown	Vein
	Unidentified Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Weathering Residual

Every working recorded in Kershaw 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bee Tree (historical)	2.6 miles	19
Knights Hill	3.8 miles	19
Grannys Quarter (historical)	4.2 miles	19
Shamokin	4.2 miles	20
Rabon Crossroads	4.5 miles	19
Sunnyhill	4.7 miles	19
Sandy Springs	4.8 miles	20
Kirkland	4.9 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247151. 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.