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Chesterfield Estates, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Piedmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29673. The Survey maps it on the Pelzer quadrangle.

Chesterfield Estates within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 Chesterfield Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 443 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined65
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism25
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
6 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2009Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Chesterfield Estates: 3 prospects, 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand. 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
Placer Prospect 9-PIron, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
River Road PlantSandProducerSedimentary
Vulcan Materials Co. S. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Piedmont DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Saluda River PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
R S Berry ProspectMicaProspect
W F Holloway & J J Brown ProspectsMicaProspect
Will Cleveland ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Greenville 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
Belle Terre Acres0.9 miles10
Golden Grove0.9 miles10
Moonville2.5 miles10
Canterbury2.9 miles10
Rockvale3.4 miles14
Park Lane Terrace3.5 miles14
Pecan Terrace3.7 miles14
Lakeside3.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1245106. 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.