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India Hook, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Rock Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29732. It lies near Fewell Island. The Survey maps it on the Lake Wylie quadrangle. 3,817 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

India Hook within York County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of India Hook between 1992 and 2019, burning about 209 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning18
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
5 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in York County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of India Hook: 5 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Mica, Iron. 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
Clawson MineIronPast Producer
Clawson Mine Or Sutton MineGoldUnknown1856
Indian Graveyard MineMicaPast Producer
Catawba River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Catawba River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fewell Island Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownResidual, Igneous
Unnamed Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownResidual, Igneous
Unnamed Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownResidual, Igneous

Every working recorded in York 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
Forest Acres0.9 miles16
Brookwood1.0 miles16
Monterey Hills1.1 miles16
Tega Cay1.2 miles16
Lakewood Acres1.3 miles16
Glenwood Acres1.3 miles16
Lakewood1.5 miles16
Island View Landing1.7 miles16

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 India HookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2273382The 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 1246112. 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.