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East Gantt, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29605. It stands on Marrow Bone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle.

East Gantt within Greenville County

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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of East Gantt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 374 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined49
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
Smoking1
Natural1

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 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of East Gantt: 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Titanium, Thorium, Iron, Thorium, Titanium. 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
Charles BrooksIron, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Placer Prospect 9-PIron, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Vulcan Materials Co. S. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Willimon MineMica, KaolinPast Producer
Boling MineMicaPast ProducerPegmatite
Boling MineMicaPast Producer
R S Berry ProspectMicaProspect
W F Holloway & J J Brown ProspectsMicaProspect
Will Cleveland ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this place

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Gantt in 11 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt$250,000Emergency manager and NWS employee reported numerous trees blown down in the area centered around the Greenville Country Club. Multiple homes were damaged by fallen trees.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt$10,000Highway department reported a tree blown down on Pine Creek Dr. Public reported (via Social Media) another tree down on a home on Fargo St in Mauldin.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-Public reported trees blown down at Kennedy Dr and Daisy Dr, and trees down on power lines and causing an outage on Douglas Dr.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-Highway Patrol reported trees blown down and blocking a portion of I-85 near mile marker 47.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-A couple trees were blown down on Mauldin Rd.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-Trees were blown down on Jacobs Rd and South Fairfield Rd a few miles south of Greenville.
June 2013Heavy RainEast Gantt-Deep ponding of water was impeding traffic at the intersection of I-85 and Laurens Road.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-A tree was blown down on Pine Creek Ct and another on Pine Creek Rd at Williamsburg Dr.
July 2012HailEast Gantt-Pea to penny size hail was reported on Tallulah Dr.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-Several trees were blown down along Rock Creek Dr and surrounding areas. One tree fell on a home.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-Trees were blown down along Fairmont Dr in the Gantt community.

Every storm recorded in Greenville 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
Royal Oaks0.4 miles14
Pecan Terrace0.4 miles14
Fairfield Acres0.6 miles14
Park Lane Terrace0.8 miles14
South Forest Estates0.8 miles14
Donaldson Heights0.9 miles12
Roseman Heights0.9 miles14
Brookforest Estates1.1 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 Q122556653The 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 1231254. 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.