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Little Mountain, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Prosperity census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29075. It stands on Little Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Little Mountain quadrangle. 249 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Little Mountain within Newberry County

On record in Little Mountain

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Little Mountain fell from 255 to 249 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000255
2010291+36 (+14%)
2020249-42 (-14%)

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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Little Mountain between 1992 and 2019, burning about 290 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined81
Debris and open burning41
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2016Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newberry 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 Little Mountain: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kyanite, Pyrophyllite, Kyanite. 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
Little Mountain Kyn OccurrencePyrophyllite, KyaniteUnknownPyrophyllite, Kyanite
Little Mtn DepositKyaniteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Newberry County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Mountain in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1996Thunderstorm WindLittle Mountain-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newberry 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
Slighs2.0 miles15
Boland Crossroads (historical)2.9 miles15
Wheeland3.1 miles15
Kibler3.1 miles15
Lattakoo (historical)3.2 miles16
Pomaria5.0 miles14
Fairview5.1 miles15
Peak5.6 miles16

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 MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2286548The 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 1231486. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.