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Clifton Station, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cowpens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29307. It stands on Cinder Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pacolet quadrangle.

Clifton Station within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Clifton Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 690 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined63
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural3
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
28 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Clifton Station: 6 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Hammet Mine, Crocker MineGold, CopperUnknown1818, 1825, 1857
Thicketty Creek Cassiterite OccurrenceTinUnknownPlacer
Chapman Sand Plant #6 (Converse)SandUnknownSedimentary
Deaton's Sand PitSandUnknownSedimentary
Pacolet River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Pacolet River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hammet Grove MineGoldPast ProducerMetamorphic Stratform
Hammet MineGoldPast Producer
Love Springs MineGoldUnknown1908
Love Springs MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spartanburg 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
Converse0.9 miles15
Cherry Hill1.1 miles15
Clifton1.2 miles15
Southern Pines1.2 miles15
Cowpens1.6 miles14
Cannons Camp Ground2.4 miles14
Cinder Creek2.4 miles15
Riverview Park2.5 miles14

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 Q122595940The 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 1231179. 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.