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Good Hope, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Saluda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29138. The Survey maps it on the Good Hope quadrangle.

Good Hope within Saluda County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Good Hope between 1992 and 2020, burning about 854 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning45
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Smoking4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saluda 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 Good Hope: 5 unknowns, 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Bauknight Shale PitClayProducerMetamorphic
Hopkins Shale PitClayUnknownMetamorphic
Padgette Shale PitClayPast ProducerMetamorphic
Saluda County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Saluda County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Saluda County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Saluda County MineClayPast Producer
Saluda County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Saluda County MineClayPast Producer
Saluda County MinesClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saluda 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
Eulala1.6 miles12
Big Creek3.1 miles12
Owdoms3.6 miles11
Limp3.8 miles11
Celestia (historical)4.1 miles12
Bleases Crossroads4.4 miles12
Fruit Hill6.6 miles11
Saluda6.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1245763. 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.