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Lost Creek, South Carolina

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dutch Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29212. It stands on Swygert Branch. The Survey maps it on the Irmo quadrangle.

Lost Creek within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Lost Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 435 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined52
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism18
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Lost Creek: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Columbia North QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerIgneous
Dreyfus QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerIgneous
Dreyfus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Harbison QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous
Harbison QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
North Columbia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Broad River MineClayProducer
Broad River ShaleClayPast ProducerMetamorphic
Harbison MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Harbison MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland 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
Raintree Acres1.1 miles20
Dutch Village1.3 miles20
Montgomery1.6 miles18
The Forest1.6 miles20
Bonnie Forest2.1 miles20
Calla (historical)2.4 miles18
Homewood Terrace3.2 miles21
Mandel Hall3.4 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1249207. 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.