Chambert Forest, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Starr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29626. It lies near Little Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Anderson South quadrangle.

Chambert Forest within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1893 USGS Elberton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Anderson South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Chambert Forest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 307 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	45
Debris and open burning	39
Arson/incendiarism	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1

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
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Smoking	6.1 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Chambert Forest: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Big Generostee Creek	Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium	Unknown	Placer-Modern-Fluvial
Big Mountain Creek	Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium	Unknown	Alluvial Placer
North Rabon Creek	Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium	Unknown	Placer-Modern-Fluvial

Every working recorded in Anderson 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
Mountain Creek	0.8 miles	14
Vandale Place	1.5 miles	14
Allendale	2.1 miles	15
Indian Trail	2.6 miles	14
Pine Forest	2.8 miles	14
Rucker Court	2.9 miles	14
Gluck	3.0 miles	14
Cloverdale	3.1 miles	14

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 Q122545231

The 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 1236611. 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.