Gap Creek, South Carolina

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Slater-Marietta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29661. It lies near High Spur Knob. The Survey maps it on the Zirconia quadrangle.

Gap Creek within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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
1935 USGS Zirconia quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Zirconia quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Zirconia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Zirconia quadrangle1:25000
1955 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Tigerville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Zirconia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Zirconia quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Hendersonville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Zirconia quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Gap Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 937 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2017	Debris and open burning	65 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gap Creek: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium. 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
	Pace Zircon Mine	Zirconium	Past Producer
	Unnamed Crushed Stone Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Metamorphic

Every working recorded in Greenville 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
Terry Creek	2.6 miles	28
Terry (historical)	2.7 miles	17
River Falls	3.2 miles	15
Wildwood Park (historical)	4.6 miles	28
Merrittsville (historical)	4.6 miles	28
Lima	4.9 miles	17
Riverview	4.9 miles	15
Chestnut Springs	5.0 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247865. 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.