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Isle of Pines, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29384. It stands on Long Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle.

Isle of Pines within Laurens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Isle of Pines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 711 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined76
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism20
Smoking7
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning11 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionNANALOO FIRE
16 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurens County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Isle of Pines: 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Vermiculite, Gold. 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
Raeburn Creek ProspectGoldProspect
Cook 1a and 1bVermiculitePast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Ezell MineVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Greenwood Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownMetamorphic
Greenwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Henderson MineVermiculitePast Producer1983
Wilson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerIgneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Laurens 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
Collins Lakeside Village1.5 miles13
Waterloo2.6 miles13
Harris Springs4.0 miles13
Baldwin4.0 miles13
Mount Olive4.2 miles13
Mount Gallagher6.2 miles13
Owens (historical)6.6 miles13
Cross Hill6.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234856. 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.