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Fosters Grove, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Boiling Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29323. It stands on Casey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Valley Falls quadrangle.

Fosters Grove 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Fosters Grove between 1992 and 2018, burning about 526 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined77
Debris and open burning31
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Smoking2
Natural1

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
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fosters Grove: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unnamed Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownMetamorphic
Pacolet River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Pacolet River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cherokee Springs1.0 miles13
McGreegor Downs1.1 miles13
Kentwood1.5 miles13
Springlake1.9 miles13
Lakeview Manor2.1 miles13
Carlisle2.2 miles13
Peach Valley Fairway Estates2.2 miles13
Mountain View2.4 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 Q122560380The 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 1248274. 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.