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Creekwood Hills, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Belton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29627. It stands on Cupboard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belton West quadrangle.

Creekwood Hills within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Creekwood Hills between 1992 and 2019, burning about 352 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes3
Natural1
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
6 September 2009Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Smoking6.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Creekwood Hills: 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Titanium, Iron, 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
Beaver CreekTitanium, IronUnknownVein Outcrop Exposure
Piedmont Kyn BeltKyaniteOccurrenceSTRATABOUND
Broadway MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cliff Webb ProspectMicaProspect
J A Jones ProspectMicaProspect
Tribble QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMetamorphic

Every working 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
Erskine Estates0.3 miles17
Campbell1.2 miles17
Nevitt Woods1.3 miles13
Meadow Brook1.3 miles13
Nevitt Pines1.4 miles13
Fairfield Acres1.7 miles13
Nevitt Forest1.7 miles13
Pinecrest2.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236645. 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.