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Crestview Hills, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Greer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29651. It stands on Frohawk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greer quadrangle.

Crestview Hills within Spartanburg County

On record in Crestview Hills

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Crestview Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 244 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Crestview Hills: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Clark-Tyger Sand MineSandUnknownSedimentary
H L Shelton DepositMicaOccurrence
I L Tigert ProspectIronOccurrence
Rester MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Briggs ProspectGoldUnknownVein
Briggs ProspectGoldProspect
Mcbee PlacerGoldPast Producer
Wolf and Tyger PlacerGoldPast 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
Apalache0.7 miles14
Fairway Estates0.7 miles14
Lakewood Hills0.7 miles14
Woodland Forest1.0 miles14
Mink Creek Estates1.0 miles14
Zoar Heights1.1 miles14
Palmetto Estates1.8 miles14
Oakwood2.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1248228. 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.