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High Point, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pageland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29728. The Survey maps it on the Pageland quadrangle.

High Point within Chesterfield County

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

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of High Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 856 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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 burning88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural7
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
6 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chesterfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of High Point: 4 unknowns, 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Stone, Dimension, 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
Pageland Sand Mine #2SandUnknownSedimentary
Unnamed Dimension Stone,Granite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous
Jefferson PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerIgneous
Jefferson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Blaney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lowry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lowry's Gravel ServiceSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSand
Roddy W Outen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unidentified Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer1981
Unidentified Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Chesterfield 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
Five Forks1.1 miles12
Crowburg2.4 miles13
Pageland2.8 miles13
White Plains3.2 miles12
Dudley3.8 miles13
Evans Mill4.9 miles13
Mangums (historical)5.1 miles13
Wolf Pond Cross Roads6.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231384. 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.