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Eulala, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Saluda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29138. The Survey maps it on the Good Hope quadrangle.

Eulala within Saluda County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Eulala between 1992 and 2020, burning about 899 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning40
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural8
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Smoking4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsPITT
10 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saluda County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Eulala: 6 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Gold. 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
Landrum MineGoldPast Producer
Landrum and Quattlebaum Mine Southern MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Mountain Creek ProspectGoldOccurrence
Quattlebaum MineGoldPast Producer
Bauknight Shale PitClayProducerMetamorphic
Padgette Shale PitClayPast ProducerMetamorphic
Saluda County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Saluda County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Saluda County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Saluda County MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saluda 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
Good Hope1.6 miles12
Celestia (historical)2.6 miles12
Owdoms3.8 miles11
Big Creek4.5 miles12
Limp4.6 miles11
Bleases Crossroads6.0 miles12
Fruit Hill6.9 miles11
Saluda8.1 miles12

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 Q122565388The 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 1232566. 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.