Gatewood, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Spartanburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29376. It stands on Tim Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moore quadrangle.

Gatewood within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1947 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Moore quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Gatewood between 1992 and 2019, burning about 284 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	56
Debris and open burning	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gatewood: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium, Sand. 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
	Fairforest Creek Sand Mine	Sand	Unknown	Sedimentary
	Tyger River	Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium	Unknown	Placer-Modern-Fluvial

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
Roebuck	1.5 miles	18
Smiths Tavern	1.5 miles	14
Pinewood South	2.1 miles	18
Moore	2.2 miles	14
Stone Station	2.3 miles	14
Raynell	2.3 miles	18
River Edge	2.9 miles	13
Salem Estates	2.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1248285. 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.