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Chestnut Springs, South Carolina

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Tigerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29690. It stands on Posey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Zirconia quadrangle.

Chestnut Springs within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Chestnut Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 430 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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 burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2007Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
20 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceBARN BURNER FIRE
30 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceKUDZU
19 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot 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 Chestnut Springs: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Feldspar, Molybdenum, Zirconium, Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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
Jimmy Mccrary PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lake SummitZirconium, Iron, Titanium, MetalOccurrence
Freeman Zircon MineZirconium, FeldsparPast Producer1869, 1888
Jones Zircon MineZirconium, FeldsparPast Producer1869
Molybdenite OccurrenceMolybdenumOccurrenceMolybdenite
Molybdenite OccurrenceMolybdenumOccurrence
Pace Zircon MineZirconiumPast Producer
Ztrconia MineZirconiumPast Producer

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
Wildwood Park (historical)1.6 miles28
Merrittsville (historical)1.8 miles28
Terry Creek3.9 miles28
Terry (historical)4.4 miles17
Gap Creek5.0 miles28
Cross Plains5.3 miles17
Glassy5.9 miles17
Lima6.3 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 Q122556359The 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 1231165. 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.