Fall Creek, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29676. It stands on Fall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salem quadrangle.

Fall Creek within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1888 USGS Pickens quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Pickens quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1984 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Salem quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Fall Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. 4 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	34
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
22 August 2011	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2014	Fireworks	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fall Creek: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Marble, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Marble Prospect	Marble, Dimension	Prospect

Every working recorded in Oconee 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
Boones Creek	2.1 miles	19
Salem	3.1 miles	19
Jocassee (historical)	4.9 miles	19
Jocassee	4.9 miles	19
Tamassee	5.5 miles	19
Flat Shoals	5.9 miles	20
Camp Oak	6.7 miles	20
Cheohee	6.7 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1242988. 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.