Mayo Mills, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mayo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29330. It stands on Double Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cowpens quadrangle.

Mayo Mills within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

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 Cowpens quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Gastonia quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Gastonia quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Mayo Mills between 1992 and 2018, burning about 881 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined	72
Debris and open burning	42
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mayo Mills: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cowpens Battlefield Bog-Iron Mine	Iron	Unknown	Bog Iron Limonite
	Unnamed Granite Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown	Metamorphic

Every working recorded in Spartanburg 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Springdale Estates	0.6 miles	14
Mayo	0.9 miles	14
Fosters Grove	3.3 miles	13
Kentwood	3.6 miles	13
Cherokee Springs	3.7 miles	13
Chesnee	4.0 miles	15
McGreegor Downs	4.1 miles	13
Whitlock Park	4.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1246551. 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.