Luray Hills, 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.

• 1953 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Cowpens quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Valley Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Gastonia quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Gastonia quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Luray Hills between 1992 and 2018, burning about 513 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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:

• Northgate
• Northwood
• Laurelwood
• Mason Estates
• Rainbow Park
• Springlake

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Luray Hills: 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Spartanburg County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1248378. 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.