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Lake Murray Shores, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Batesburg-Leesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29070. The Survey maps it on the Lake Murray West quadrangle.

Lake Murray Shores within Saluda County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Lake Murray Shores between 1992 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saluda 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 Lake Murray Shores: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kuykendall ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Saluda 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
Delmar4.3 miles12
Wyses Ferry6.5 miles12
Corinth (historical)7.5 miles12
Merchant (historical)10.1 miles12
Mount Willing10.9 miles12
Jones Crossroads11.6 miles11
Holston Crossroads11.7 miles11
Denny12.2 miles12

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 Q122598322The 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 1231458. 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.