Lime Stone, South Carolina

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.

• 1892 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1912 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000
• 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Limestone quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Lime Stone (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 417 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 4 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Limestone
• Pleasant Lane
• Mayson Crossroads
• Sullivan Crossroads
• Brunson Crossroads
• Cleora

Every fire recorded in Edgefield County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Lime Stone (historical): 4 past producers, 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Gold, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Corundum, Pyrophyllite, Kyanite, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Edgefield County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241307. 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.