Five Oaks, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Landrum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29356. The Survey maps it on the Landrum quadrangle.

Five Oaks within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1907 USGS Saluda quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Inman quadrangle1:62500
1964 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Landrum quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Landrum quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Hendersonville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Five Oaks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 413 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning	69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
17 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	HICKORY GROVE
3 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	North Carolina Forest Service	not named
29 July 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Carolina Forest Service	not named
20 July 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2002	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Five Oaks: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Mica, Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
North Pacolet Sand	Sand	Unknown	Sedimentary
South Pacolet River	Sand	Unknown	Sedimentary
Feldspar/Mica Mine	Feldspar, Mica	Past Producer
Feldspar/Mica Mine	Feldspar, Mica	Past Producer
Feldspar/Mica Mine	Feldspar, Mica	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bennetts	0.9 miles	16
Landrum	1.2 miles	16
Ingleside	1.8 miles	16
Campobello	4.0 miles	15
Obed (historical)	4.2 miles	15
North Pacolet	4.4 miles	15
Woodfin	5.9 miles	15
Andover (historical)	6.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1248264. 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.