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Green Pond, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Woodruff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29388. It stands on Quarter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reidville quadrangle.

Green Pond within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Green Pond between 1992 and 2019, burning about 330 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning17
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1999Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Green Pond: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
418 Sand PitSandUnknownSedimentary
Cresent DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tyger River MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dillard Crossroads1.7 miles13
Crescent2.6 miles13
Cashville2.7 miles14
Switzer2.8 miles13
Reidville Acres4.5 miles13
Reidville4.7 miles13
Woodruff4.8 miles8
Poplar Springs4.8 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.

Wikipedia article on Green PondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073104The 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 1222877. 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.