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Clemson Forest, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Seneca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29678. It stands on Shiloh Branch. The Survey maps it on the Seneca quadrangle.

Clemson Forest within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Clemson Forest between 1992 and 2019, burning about 329 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1
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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1999Natural3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder 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

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Clemson Forest: 8 prospects, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Garnet. 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
Unnamed Garnet ProspectGarnetProspect
J B Smith ProspectMicaProspect
John Dyer ProspectMicaProspect
Leroy ProspectMicaProspect
Mattie Falls DepositMicaOccurrence
Morgan ProspectMicaProspect
Ross Morgan ProspectMicaProspect
Calhoun PlacerGoldPast Producer
Cochran MineGoldPast Producer
Cochran PlacerGoldPast Producer1908

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
Shiloh0.7 miles16
Valley View Shores0.8 miles16
Harbin Acres0.8 miles16
Valley View1.2 miles16
Colonial Place1.2 miles16
Wexford1.3 miles16
Adams Crossing1.4 miles19
Rackley1.4 miles16

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 Q122569087The 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 1242946. 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.