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Hickory Grove, South Carolina

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

Hickory Grove 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 363 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning40
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
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
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hickory Grove: 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Nickel, Copper. 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
Cromley MineMicaPast ProducerPegmatite (?)
Culbreath MineGold, Nickel, CopperUnknown1908
Culbreath MineGoldPast Producer
Yarborough MineGoldPast Producer1908
Yarborough MineGoldPast 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
Denny1.9 miles12
Colemans Crossroads2.4 miles12
Higgins2.8 miles12
Ellis (historical)3.7 miles12
Chapmans Crossroads4.0 miles12
Bleases Crossroads4.6 miles12
Merchant (historical)4.9 miles12
Corinth (historical)6.0 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q49353735The 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 1227916. 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.