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Heath Springs, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Heath Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29058. The Survey maps it on the Heath Springs quadrangle. 742 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 719 feet above sea level.

Heath Springs within Lancaster County

On record in Heath Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Heath Springs fell from 790 to 742 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010790
2020742-48 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Heath Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 612 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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
Debris and open burning59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 September 2007Natural8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Heath Springs: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Dimension. 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
Congaree QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous
Coral Grey QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Brothers BelkGoldPast Producer
Redding PlacerGoldUnknownPlacer
Redding PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heath Springs in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
January 1995Thunderstorm WindHeath Springs$1,000Trees and power lines blown down.
April 1997HailHeath Springs-no account filed
May 1996HailHeath Springs-no account filed
May 1996HailHeath Springs-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHeath Springs-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHeath Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Oakhurst1.8 miles13
Pleasant Hill1.9 miles13
Anvil Rock2.6 miles13
Rich Hill Crossroads4.5 miles13
Cauthens Crossroads5.3 miles13
Kershaw5.6 miles14
Pitmon Crossroad5.7 miles13
Fork Hill Crossroads5.7 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 Heath SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2548622The 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 1245936. 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.