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McKelvey Crossroads, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Woodville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29627. The Survey maps it on the Fork Shoals quadrangle.

McKelvey Crossroads within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of McKelvey Crossroads between 1992 and 2018, burning about 389 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined61
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Natural1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of McKelvey Crossroads: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kyanite, Mica, Iron, Titanium, Thorium. 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
WaldropIron, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Fred Cox MineMicaPast Producer
Joe Darby DepositMicaOccurrence
Beam Sillimanite ProspectKyaniteProspect
Beam Sillimanite ProspectKyaniteUnknownMetamorphic
Cooper Sand Co. Piedmont MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Delzer DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pearson and Scott Sillimanite PrsptKyaniteProspect
Piedmont MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Greenville 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
Ware Place1.8 miles10
Lickville2.0 miles9
Woodville3.1 miles10
Fork Shoals3.5 miles9
East View4.2 miles10
Canterbury6.0 miles10
Duncan Township6.2 miles9
Moonville7.6 miles10

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 Q122545286The 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 1231530. 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.