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Dogwood Heights, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Walhalla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29672. It stands on Frenge Branch. The Survey maps it on the Old Pickens quadrangle.

Dogwood Heights 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Dogwood Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 384 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning32
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
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
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2011Fireworks1.0 acresSouth 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dogwood Heights: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Talc-Soapstone. 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 Talc ProspectTalc-SoapstoneProspect
Davis ProspectMicaProspect
Keith DepositMicaOccurrence

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
Sugar Hill0.5 miles16
Saxony Forest0.5 miles16
White Harbor0.9 miles16
Lakeside Estates1.2 miles16
Fairview1.9 miles16
Hampton Shores2.0 miles16
Fairview Shores2.0 miles16
George Martin Acres2.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1242966. 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.