Clayton, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Monticello-Salem Crossroads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29015. The Survey maps it on the Blair quadrangle.

Clayton within Fairfield County

On record in Clayton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Shivar Springs Bottling Company Cisternslisted 1984 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1904 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Blair quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Newberry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Clayton between 1992 and 2018, burning about 415 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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	20
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	7
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 1998	Smoking	10 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	MCCONNELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield 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
Shelton	0.7 miles	15
Lylesford (historical)	2.4 miles	15
Feasterville	3.3 miles	12
Cool Branch	4.7 miles	13
Blair	4.7 miles	15
Rock Creek	6.2 miles	14
Strother	6.6 miles	15
Old Buckhead	6.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247305. 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.