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Chauga Heights, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Westminster census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29693. It stands on Ramsey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Holly Springs quadrangle.

Chauga Heights within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Chauga Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 448 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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 burning82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined77
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism23
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1998Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee 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 Chauga Heights: 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Flagstone ProspectStone, DimensionProspect
Oconee QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerMetamorphic
Oconee Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Oconee 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
Horse Shoe (historical)1.2 miles17
Percival Crossroads1.4 miles17
Harbin (historical)2.4 miles17
Westminster2.5 miles17
Eastminster3.2 miles17
Jason3.4 miles17
Five Points3.5 miles17
Brock3.6 miles17

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 Q122590726The 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 1231158. 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.