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Kirkley 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. It stands on Gates Ford Branch. The Survey maps it on the Westville quadrangle.

Kirkley 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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Kirkley Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,112 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 18 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 burning74
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural15
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kirkley Mill: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, 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
Carolina Mahogany QuarryGranitePast Producer
Johnson MineGoldPast 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
Abney Crossroads0.8 miles14
Barfield Mill1.3 miles19
Gaston Mill4.8 miles19
Lockhart Oil Field5.3 miles19
Westville5.4 miles19
Mount Pisgah5.5 miles13
Minton Mill5.5 miles13
Jordan Mill6.3 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 Q122543718The 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 1246261. 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.