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Kirkover Hills, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Camden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29020. It lies near Hobkirk Hill. The Survey maps it on the Rabon Crossroads quadrangle.

Kirkover Hills 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

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Kirkover Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 689 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 10 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 burning69
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking13
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Smoking2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burningunder 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 Kirkover Hills: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Thorium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hasskamp MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Wateree RiverIron, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial

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
Windsor Heights0.6 miles19
Kirkwood1.1 miles20
Dusty Bend1.1 miles20
Sunnyhill1.5 miles19
Log Town (historical)1.7 miles20
Edgewood1.7 miles20
Camden1.9 miles18
Sandy Springs1.9 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 Q113056513The 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 1235125. 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.