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Little Chicago, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gramling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29322. The Survey maps it on the Campobello quadrangle.

Little Chicago within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Little Chicago between 1992 and 2017, burning about 337 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Little Chicago: 4 past producers, 4 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Sand, 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
Rester MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Clark-Tyger Sand MineSandUnknownSedimentary
South Pacolet RiverSandUnknownSedimentary
I L Tigert ProspectIronOccurrence
Mills Herren ProspectIronProspect
Stanley Adkins ProspectIronOccurrence
Briggs ProspectGoldUnknownVein
Briggs ProspectGoldProspect
Cureton MineGoldPast Producer1908
Mcbee PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spartanburg 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
Andover (historical)1.6 miles15
Gramling2.9 miles15
Mascot2.9 miles15
Woodridge3.6 miles15
Holly Springs4.0 miles15
Campobello4.1 miles15
Inman Mills4.5 miles15
Highland Park5.0 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on Little ChicagoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073114The 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 1248373. 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.