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Cateechee, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Central census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29630. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Six Mile quadrangle.

Cateechee within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Cateechee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 519 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined68
Debris and open burning49
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Smoking2

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
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Recreation and ceremony30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cateechee: 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, 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
Calhoun PlacerGoldUnknownPlacer
Amos L Honeycutt DepositMicaOccurrence
Head ProspectMicaProspect
John Walker ProspectMicaProspect
Josie Mcmadden DepositMicaOccurrence
Murphrie DepositMicaProspect
Robinson ProspectsMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this place

8 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cateechee in 8 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 2013Flash FloodCateechee1 killed, $50,000A car was swept away by flood waters on Silver Creek Road. The car and it's occupant, a 23 year old male, were found separately downstream. The occupant was killed and the car destroyed. Two other cars were swept away at this location with 4 passengers rescued.
October 2017Tornado (EF2)Cateechee$250,000NWS storm survey found a non-continuous path of tornado damage that began at Maxey Dr near the center of Norris. Multiple trees were blown down, several outbuildings damaged or destroyed, and a home received moderate roof damage at this location. The first of several short breaks in the damage path occurred there, but the path was picked up again in an area along Robinson Bridge Rd, just north of Jule Merck Rd, where the most significant damage was observed. The roof of a brick home was completely removed and part of an exterior wall collapsed. Two mobile homes were also completely destroyed in this area. The path was lost again downstream of this location, in a mostly inaccessible area roughly paralleling Twelvemile Creek, but additional tree damage and minor damage to a mobile home was found along Liberty Highway between Nix Rd and Sweetbriar Rd. Yet another break in the path was observed to the north/northeast of this location, but additional damage to trees and outbuildings was observed along South Belle Shoals Rd and Allgood Bridge Rd. A final area of damage was found just west of downtown Pickens, with roofing material removed from a home on Bradley Dr and multiple trees down along Shady Grove Rd.
August 2013Flash FloodCateechee$100,000Todd Creek Road was washed out near the Todd Creek Bridge. The road was damaged as water washed out a culvert under the road. Todd Creek also washed out Sunrise Road and flooded Browning Road in this same area. til 1230 am EDT.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCateechee-Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines with outages.
May 2025HailCateechee-Public reported nickel size hail.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCateechee-Public reported numerous trees blown down throughout Pickens County, with some trees down on power lines.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindCateechee-Public reported (via Social Media) trees blown down on Six Mile Highway north of Central.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCateechee-A few trees and power lines were blown down west of Liberty, including along Golden Creek Rd.

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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
Norris1.3 miles16
Kelcar Acres2.4 miles19
Brookwood2.7 miles19
Central3.2 miles19
Pearidge3.4 miles16
Traber3.5 miles17
Six Mile3.5 miles16
Terrapin Crossroads4.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1221397. 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.