Knob, South Carolina

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Pickens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29671. It stands on Carrick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Table Rock quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Knob within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

1905 USGS Pisgah quadrangle1:125000
1906 USGS Pisgah quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1935 USGS Table Rock quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Table Rock quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1947 USGS Table Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Hendersonville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Knob (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,987 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined	82
Debris and open burning	71
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Knob (historical): 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Meece Mine	Feldspar, Mica	Prospect

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pumpkintown	1.5 miles	21
Liberia	2.7 miles	21
Midway	4.1 miles	17
Prices Store (historical)	4.2 miles	16
Pleasant View	4.9 miles	17
Wattacoo (historical)	6.0 miles	15
Sunset	6.5 miles	16
Olga (historical)	6.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1243411. 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.