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Kilgore, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Enoree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29388. The Survey maps it on the Enoree quadrangle.

Kilgore within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Kilgore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 552 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2000Smoking1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Kilgore: 18 past producers, 6 producers, 6 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Kyanite. 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
Alexander Sillimanite ProspectKyaniteUnknownMetamorphic
Belk MineVermiculiteProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Brown #1 and #2 MineVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Brown Mine EastVermiculitePast Producer
Brown Mine WestVermiculitePast Producer
Brown PitVermiculitePast Producer
Charles WaldrepVermiculiteProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Dillard-Waldrep #3 MineVermiculitePast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
F. Waldrep MineVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Foster #3VermiculitePast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kilgore in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindKilgore-County comms reported trees blown down on Harris Bridge Rd.
April 2015HailKilgore-Public reported quarter size hail.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindKilgore-A tree was blown down on Racetrack Rd and another tree was blown down on Harris Bridge Rd.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindKilgore-A tree was blown down near highway 221 about 6 miles south southeast of Woodruff.

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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
Crows (historical)2.3 miles12
Hillsville2.6 miles12
Enoree3.0 miles12
Hobbyville3.4 miles12
Woodruff3.9 miles8
Waldrop Crossroads4.2 miles12
Evinsville5.7 miles12
Millville (historical)6.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1223729. 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.