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Kelcar Acres, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Central census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29630. It stands on Huggins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clemson quadrangle.

Kelcar Acres within Pickens County

On record in Kelcar Acres

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 3 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Kelcar Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 681 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning36
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Recreation and ceremony30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Kelcar Acres: 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, 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
Calhoun PlacerGoldPast Producer
Calhoun PlacerGoldUnknownPlacer
Amos L Honeycutt DepositMicaOccurrence
Head ProspectMicaProspect
Mattie Falls DepositMicaOccurrence
Morgan ProspectMicaProspect
Murphrie DepositMicaProspect
Robinson ProspectsMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Pickens 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
Brookwood0.3 miles19
Central0.8 miles19
Isaqueena Village2.1 miles19
Norris2.2 miles16
Heatherwood2.3 miles19
Mountaindale2.4 miles19
Cateechee2.4 miles16
Eastbriar2.5 miles19

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 Q122547059The 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 1243401. 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.