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Glenn Springs, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pauline census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29374. The Survey maps it on the Glenn Springs quadrangle. 263 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Glenn Springs within Spartanburg County

On record in Glenn Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 10 records

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.

Fires near this place

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Glenn Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes1
Smoking1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1999Natural11 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Glenn Springs: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fairforest Creek Sand MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Mud MineGold, CopperPast Producer
Mud MineGoldUnknownVein
Nott MineGoldPast Producer
Nott MineGoldUnknownVein
Ophir MineGoldPast Producer
West Mine/Bogan OphirGoldUnknownVein

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenn Springs in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1994Thunderstorm WindGlenn Springs$2,000A small tornado spun up as a thunderstorm moved across ridges in hilly terrain in southern Spartanburg County. The small tornado was viewed by several people and was accompanied by marble-size hail. Witnesses stated there was one flash of lightning and one roll of thunder as the storm moved across. The roofs of a home and barn were damaged and an outbuilding was destroyed. Power was out in the area for a few hours. A similar storm produced some minor wind damage in the Glenn Springs/Pauline area.

Every storm 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
Pauline2.2 miles14
Foster Mill3.1 miles14
Golightly3.9 miles14
Walnut Grove4.1 miles14
White Stone Springs (historical)4.4 miles14
Dutchman4.9 miles15
Stone Station5.1 miles14
Smiths Tavern6.3 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on Glenn SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q387960The 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 1245754. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.