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Jordan Mill, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mount Pisgah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29067. The Survey maps it on the Westville quadrangle.

Jordan Mill within Kershaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Jordan Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,005 acres in total. 16 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined95
Debris and open burning79
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kershaw 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 Jordan Mill: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Kaolin. 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
Furr Trucking Company, IncorporatedKaolinProducer
Cassatt Kaolin PitClayUnknown1981
Darby PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Darby Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Dickerson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Palmetto MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Palmetto MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kershaw 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
Lockhart Oil Field1.8 miles19
Cassatt4.8 miles14
Gaston Mill4.9 miles19
Clyburn4.9 miles19
Dekalb5.1 miles19
Barfield Mill5.4 miles19
Westville5.9 miles19
Shepard6.0 miles20

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 Q122588533The 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 1231438. 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.