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Long Bottom Ford, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mountain Rest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29664. It lies near Callas Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Satolah quadrangle.

Long Bottom Ford within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

83 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Long Bottom Ford between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,370 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 30 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
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
21 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsDOUBLE SPRINGS
17 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use12 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestJOE BLECKLEY
1 September 2007Natural8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2002Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestHOLDEN BRANCH #1
4 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestHOLDEN BRANCH #2
31 August 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsWHITE HOUSE
3 August 2002Arson/incendiarism2.3 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestHOLDEN MTN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Long Bottom Ford: 11 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Asbestos, Olivine, Vermiculite, Asbestos, Magnesite. 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
Laurel Creek Olivine DepositOlivine, Vermiculite, AsbestosProducerMafic Intrusive
Laurel Creek Olivine DepositMagnesite, Asbestos, VermiculiteOccurrence
Chattooga River ProspectAsbestosPast Producer
Hicks Asbestos MineAsbestosPast Producer
Nicholson MineAsbestosPast Producer
Reid MineAsbestosPast Producer
H.W. Bartley PropertyGoldOccurrence
Hamby MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Hamby MineGoldPast Producer
Hedden Placer MineGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Oconee 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
Russell (historical)1.0 miles18
Whetstone4.0 miles20
Moody Cove6.5 miles19
Cheohee7.3 miles19
Camp Oak8.5 miles20
Picket Post8.7 miles20
Tamassee8.9 miles19
Forest Acres9.5 miles20

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 Q122551630The 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 1246453. 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.