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Harveytown, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Wellford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29365. The Survey maps it on the Greer quadrangle.

Harveytown within Spartanburg County

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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Harveytown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 463 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning27
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1996Missing 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Harveytown: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Granite. 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
Arbuckle QuarryGraniteProducer
H L Shelton DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harveytown in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 2 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
December 2021Thunderstorm WindHarveytown$5,000Public reported a few shingles blown off a house and a 28 foot RV tipped over by the wind in the Stillpointe subdivision.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHarveytown-Ham radio operator reported two trees blown down across Highway 292, blocking both lanes of traffic, with power lines also blown down across the road close to this location.

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
Holly Hill Heights0.7 miles14
Cheryl Fields0.8 miles14
Northview Acres0.9 miles14
Lyman1.0 miles14
Serene Heights1.2 miles14
Duncan1.2 miles14
Wellford2.1 miles13
Wade Hampton Heights2.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1223075. 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.