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Cedar Springs, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It lies in ZIP code area 29819. It stands on Stillhouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Verdery quadrangle.

Cedar Springs within Abbeville County

On record in Cedar Springs

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,085 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning20
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
9 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsTOWER
29 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning105 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsCRESWELL
16 September 1999Debris and open burning60 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Abbeville County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Springs: 5 past producers, 4 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Pyrophyllite, Andalusite. 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
Parsons Mountain Pyrophyllite ProspectPyrophyllite, AndalusiteUnknownMetamorphic
Bradley MineGoldUnknown1848
Bradley MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Bradley ProspectGoldOccurrence
Civil War MineGoldPast Producer1860
Jones MineGoldUnknown1908
Jones MineGoldPast Producer
Lyon ProspectGoldProspect
Lyons MineGoldUnknown1908
Neill MineGoldPast Producer1909, 1913

Every working recorded in Abbeville 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
Bethiah4.1 miles13
Clatworthy Crossroads4.1 miles15
Cana (historical)4.3 miles15
Long Cane (historical)4.9 miles15
Bethel5.0 miles13
Millers Grove (historical)6.1 miles15
Sharon7.0 miles15
Abbeville7.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1229539. 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.