BlockBefore

Glenn Village, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the West Columbia-Cayce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29053. The Survey maps it on the Southwest Columbia quadrangle.

Glenn Village within Lexington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

613 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 613 fires within 5 miles of Glenn Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,484 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 36 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/undetermined280
Debris and open burning128
Misuse of fire by a minor93
Arson/incendiarism36
Equipment and vehicle use33
Natural11
Smoking8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Fireworks2

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
8 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Glenn Village: 19 producers, 11 unknowns, 7 past producers. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silica, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Thorium. 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
Red Bank CreekZirconium, Titanium, Iron, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Columbia Pit EastSilicaProducer
Columbia WorksSilicaProducer
Hites Kaolin PitClayProducer
Lexington County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Lexington County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Lexington County MinesClayProducer
Lexington County MinesClayProducer
Unidentified MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Unidentified MineClayUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lexington 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
Charwood1.2 miles13
Apollo Gardens2.1 miles13
Pineridge2.1 miles13
Congaree Gardens2.2 miles13
Arborgate2.4 miles13
Lloydswoods2.4 miles13
Silver Lake2.6 miles13
Westcliff Estates2.6 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 Q122546302The 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 1244181. 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.