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Eastway Park, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Columbia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29209. It stands on Reeder Point Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fort Jackson South quadrangle.

Eastway Park within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Eastway Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 756 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined70
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
3 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 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 Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Eastway Park: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium, Iron, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Columbia QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1883
Congaree RiverZirconium, Thorium, Titanium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Lexington Co. Clay and Shale MinesClayPast Producer
Bluff Road MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer1978, 1980
Bluff Road Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Richland 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
Starlite0.3 miles17
Bluff Estates0.4 miles17
Childs1.4 miles17
Sims1.8 miles17
Meadowfield2.1 miles17
Heritage Woods2.2 miles17
Washington Park2.2 miles17
Hampton Trace2.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1249063. 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.