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Locust Hill, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 29690. It stands on North Enoree River. The Survey maps it on the Slater quadrangle.

Locust Hill within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Locust Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 331 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 August 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 2009Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Locust Hill: 3 unknowns, 3 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
L E Stringer ProspectMicaProspect
Sandy Flat QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMetamorphic
TigerVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Tigerville ProspectZirconiumOccurrence
Unnamed Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, GraniteUnknownMetamorphic
Rabun QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sandy Flats QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cureton MineGoldPast Producer
Westmoreland MineGoldPast ProducerVein Some Placer Work
Westmoreland MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this place

12 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Locust Hill in 12 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindLocust Hill$500Ham radio operator reported the metal roof was blown off a building at Highway 253 and Highway 290.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindLocust Hill-Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLocust Hill-Utility company and fire dept reported multiple trees blown down from the Bellvue community east toward the Lake Cunningham area. Trees were also down in the Highland community. Some trees were down on power lines.
May 2020HailLocust Hill-NWS employee reported penny size hail along Highway 290.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindLocust Hill-Highway Patrol reported a tree blown down on Tigerville Rd at Belvue School Rd and another tree down on Jackson Grove Rd. Spotter reported fence sections blown down and 4-inch diameter limbs snapped from the top of trees nearby on Feversham Ct.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindLocust Hill-Ham radio operator reported numerous trees blown down across Oconee County.
March 2017HailLocust Hill-Numerous sources reported hail up to the size of golf balls associated with a second severe thunderstorm that tracked from the Travelers Rest/Tigerville/Taylors area to Greer. The storm followed a very similar path to the first one and again caused significant damage to structures and vehicles.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLocust Hill-Highway Patrol and the public reported a few trees, power lines, and multiple large limbs blown down along Tigerville Rd near Highway 290. Public also reported multiple trees blown down along Pleasant Hill Rd near Gowensville.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLocust Hill-Highway Patrol reported a tree blown down on Belvue Rd at Highway 25 (3.5 NNE Travelers Rest) on Blue Ridge Dr (9.5 N Taylors) and on Fisher Rd (6.5 N Greer).
May 2011HailLocust Hill-Larger than baseball size hail damaged vehicles about 3 miles south of Tigerville.
March 2010HailLocust Hill-no account filed
June 2009HailLocust Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenville 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
Mount View1.7 miles17
Bellvue1.8 miles17
Brookgreen2.6 miles13
Sandy Flat2.6 miles11
Marydell (historical)3.4 miles17
Little Texas3.5 miles13
Tigerville3.6 miles17
Points North4.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1246450. 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.