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Chinquapin Falls, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It lies in ZIP code area 29006. It stands on Mare Branch. The Survey maps it on the Monetta quadrangle.

Chinquapin Falls within Lexington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Chinquapin Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 870 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 19 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Natural4.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Natural15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Chinquapin Falls: 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Frick MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Aiken County Mine Number 1ClayUnknownSedimentary
Aiken County Mine Number 1ClayPast Producer
Marlowe CreekClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lexington 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
Mims2.2 miles12
Hall (historical)2.2 miles12
Samaria2.4 miles12
Althea (historical)3.2 miles12
Kneece3.3 miles11
Steedman5.3 miles12
Batesburg5.8 miles11
Batesburg-Leesville5.9 miles11

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 Q122597200The 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 1231169. 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.