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Irving, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ware Shoals-Hodges census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29653. The Survey maps it on the Cokesbury quadrangle.

Irving within Greenwood County

On record in Irving

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Irving between 1992 and 2019, burning about 575 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined146
Debris and open burning49
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking12
Arson/incendiarism7
Other causes3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood 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 Irving: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mrs. Mary Robinson PropertyAluminum, KaolinProspect
Wilson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerIgneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irving in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2015Flash FloodIrving$150,000Emergency Manager reported flash flooding developed after 2-3 inches of rain fell across the county in just a few hours. Numerous roads, as much as a couple of dozen were closed in the central part of the county due to a combination of stream flooding and drainage problems. This included portions of Highway 25 and the Bypass in the city of Greenwood. Several homes were flooded along Parkland Place Rd near Emerald Rd, likely due to Stockman Branch overflowing its banks.
December 2009Thunderstorm WindIrving$50,000A downburst damage pattern began near the intersection of highway 25 and Keels Rd, about 5 miles northwest of Greenwood. Tree damage was sporadic in this area, before becoming more widespread in locations around Highland Dr and Rutledge Rd. A tree fell on a carport and some shingles were blown off a home on North Lake Dr. Finally, a large tree fell on and significantly damaged an animal hospital on highway 72 on the northeast side of town.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindIrving-About a dozen trees were blown down across roads from just north of the city to across the city of Greenwood.

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Dalewood1.1 miles15
Downs Siding1.3 miles15
Hyde Park1.7 miles15
Hodges1.9 miles14
Cokesbury2.0 miles14
Ponderosa Heights2.3 miles15
Northfall Acres2.3 miles15
Roman Acres2.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234145. 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.