Eureka Mills, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29706. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle.

Eureka Mills within Chester County

On record in Eureka Mills

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Kumler Halllisted 1983 · 0.9 miles away
Finley High Schoollisted 2025 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Eureka Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 385 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined	89
Debris and open burning	45
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Eureka Mill	0.2 miles	13
York Terrace	0.6 miles	13
Quail Hollow	1.1 miles	13
Chester	1.3 miles	13
Rolling Hills Estates	1.4 miles	13
Lakewood	1.5 miles	13
Brooklyn	1.6 miles	13
Stringfellow	1.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230677. 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.