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Fairmont Mills, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fairmont Mills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29385. It stands on Frey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wellford quadrangle.

Fairmont Mills within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Fairmont Mills between 1992 and 2019, burning about 439 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/undetermined68
Debris and open burning37
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Fireworks3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Debris and open burning1.4 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg 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
Larkin0.8 miles13
Snoddy0.9 miles13
Cambridge1.0 miles13
Clevedale1.0 miles13
Brookside Village1.4 miles13
Jackson Mill1.9 miles13
Fairmont2.0 miles13
Startex2.1 miles13

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 Q122546759The 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 1245720. 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.