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Meadow Brook, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Belton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29627. It stands on Pea Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saylors Crossroads quadrangle.

Meadow Brook within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Meadow Brook between 1992 and 2019, burning about 518 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism13
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Other causes2
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
6 September 2009Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Smoking6.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Meadow Brook: 3 producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica, Titanium, Iron, Kyanite. 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
Beaver CreekTitanium, IronUnknownVein Outcrop Exposure
Piedmont Kyn BeltKyaniteOccurrenceSTRATABOUND
Cliff Webb ProspectMicaProspect
J A Jones ProspectMicaProspect
Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Broadway MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tribble QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Anderson 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
Erskine Estates1.1 miles17
Creekwood Hills1.3 miles17
Nevitt Pines1.4 miles13
Nevitt Forest1.6 miles13
Campbell1.7 miles17
Nevitt Woods1.8 miles13
Normandy Park2.0 miles13
Fairfield Acres2.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236816. 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.