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Goshen Hill, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cross Keys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29178. It stands on Padgetts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitmire North quadrangle.

Goshen Hill within Union 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Goshen Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 483 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined28
Natural9
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning18 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsCOLONIAL
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2008Natural10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsTYGER RIVER
29 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsDELTA
2 August 1998Natural9.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsPITTMAN POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Sartor Town1.2 miles12
Delta1.3 miles12
Beaver Dam1.6 miles12
Ada (historical)3.6 miles12
Tuckertown4.1 miles13
Red Town (historical)4.9 miles12
Shady Grove (historical)6.4 miles13
Carlisle7.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1245789. 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.