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Gaston Mill, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Westville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29067. The Survey maps it on the Westville quadrangle.

Gaston Mill within Kershaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires near this place

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Gaston Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 707 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined67
Debris and open burning56
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural9
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kershaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Gaston Mill: 5 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Stone, Granite, Clay. 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
Carolina Mahogany No.1Granite, Stone, DimensionPast Producer1980
J T Young EstateManganeseOccurrence1949
Carolina Mahogany QuarryGranitePast Producer
Dekalb MineClayPast Producer
Kershaw QuarryStoneUnknownIgneous
Kershaw QuarryStoneProducer
Midland Palmetto QuarryGranitePast Producer
Shale PitClayUnknownMetamorphic
Carolina Mahogany No. 2Stone, DimensionUnknownIgneous
Palmetto Granite QuarryStone, DimensionUnknown1981

Every working recorded in Kershaw 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
Westville1.1 miles19
Clyburn2.5 miles19
Lockhart Oil Field3.1 miles19
Flat Rock3.2 miles19
Barfield Mill3.5 miles19
Kirkley Mill4.8 miles19
Jordan Mill4.9 miles19
Grannys Quarter (historical)4.9 miles19

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 Q122594648The 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 1231308. 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.