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Craytonville, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Honea Path census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29627. It stands on Cherokee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Honea Path quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Craytonville within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Craytonville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 606 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism18
Smoking12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
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
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Craytonville: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Kyanite. 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
Lakeside QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, GraniteProducerMetamorphic
Piedmont Kyn BeltKyaniteOccurrenceSTRATABOUND

Every working recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craytonville in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2013Thunderstorm WindCraytonville-A tree was blown down near highway 20 at Austin Rd and another tree was blown down near Brick Mill Rd and highway 76.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCraytonville-Trees were blown down on Belton-Honea Path Highway, 2 miles northwest of Honea Path, and at the intersection of highways 178 and 76 in Honea Path. Other trees|were blown down on Firetower Rd and Austin Rd, both about 4 miles west Honea Path.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindCraytonville-Multiple trees were blown down across southeast Anderson County, including on Rodgers Rd, Holiday Dam Rd and Cannon Bottom Rd.
June 2011HailCraytonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Saylors Crossroads2.8 miles13
Dosheno3.3 miles13
Burris3.6 miles13
High Point4.2 miles13
Honea Path4.9 miles13
Meadow Brook5.7 miles13
Belton6.0 miles9
Campbell6.5 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.

Wikipedia article on CraytonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48850572The 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 1247421. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.