Longcreek, 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.

• 1886 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1896 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
• 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Rainy Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Rainy Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Longcreek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 805 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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:

• Brasstown
• Battle Creek
• Colonial Heights
• Conneross (historical)
• Dutch Fork
• Five Points

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Longcreek: 3 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Marble, Dimension, Mica. 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 Oconee 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 1224187. 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.