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Easterly Heights, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Blacksburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29702. It lies near Whitaker Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Blacksburg South quadrangle.

Easterly Heights within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

299 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of Easterly Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 663 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined143
Debris and open burning47
Arson/incendiarism33
Equipment and vehicle use25
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Smoking14
Other causes8
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
5 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionLOVES FIRE
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 128 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 128 workings within 5 miles of Easterly Heights: 82 unknowns, 24 past producers, 13 producers, 4 prospects. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Manganese, Barium-Barite. 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
Blacksburg PlantSandProducerSedimentary
Dave Byers Manganese PitsManganese, Clay, IronUnknown1900
Gneiss Rock QuarryStoneUnknown1850
Kings Creek Barite Southwest AreaBarium-Barite, Copper, Lead, ZincUnknown1900
Kings Creek MineBarium-Barite, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast Producer1900, 1966
Kings Creek Plant No. 2FeldsparPlant
M. Carroll Manganese MineFire Clay (Refractory), ManganesePast Producer
Northeast Barite PitBarium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper, LeadPast Producer1890, 1931
Silver Mine Ridge Silver MineSilver, LeadUnknown1860
Unnamed Garnet Occurrence Gl-102GarnetUnknownStratabound

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Blacksburg0.7 miles15
Glenwood Estates1.0 miles15
Cashion Crossroads2.0 miles15
Wilburn (historical)2.6 miles20
Antioch4.2 miles21
Cherokee Falls4.3 miles15
Kings Creek4.7 miles20
Gaston Shoals (historical)5.1 miles16

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 Q122556369The 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 1228515. 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.